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PREFACE. 



Old legends tell us of a Golden Age, 

When earth was guiltless, — gods the guests of men, 
Ere sin had dimmed the heart's illumined page, 

And prophet-voices say 'twill come again. 
O happy age ! when Love shall rule the heart, 

And time to live shall be the poor man's dower, 

People, it ripens now ! awake ! and strike the hour. 

Gerald Massty. 

The legends of the great historic races 
dwell lovingly, and with marked unanim- 
ity, on a harmonious and happy past in 
which warfare and suffering were unknown. 
In that Golden Age, righteousness, tran- 
quillity, and joy alone reigned in the hearts 
of the people. There are those who feel 
that man will again live this natural life, 
that humanity will eventually and forever 
enjoy this divine state of being. We have 
gleaned from the New Testament, 1 which 

1 The selections in the following pages are taken from the 
revised version of the New Testament. 



4 Preface. 

foretells the coming of the kingdom of 
God, such words, phrases, and sentences as 
seemed to describe in a concrete way the 
approaching dispensation. These words 
reveal the nature of that wondrous love, 
now rapidly growing in the world, which 
is the harbinger of the Golden Age to 
come : when peace shall prevail on earth, 
when all hearts shall be united as one, 
when the children of God shall be " per- 
fected into one." 

"To the Golden Age that waits, 
On, on ! 
Open wide the morning's gates, 
That will flood the Future's face 
With the light of better days; 
That will let the glory forth 
Of a heaven upon earth, 
With fraternity, equality, and liberty begun. 

On, on ! 

"To the better, to the brighter, 
On, on ! 
Where the human path grows lighter; 
Where the love of man is ever, 
Like a sunny, winding river, 
Broader, deeper, fuller growing, 
Onward through the nations flowing, 
'Til it links the world together, and the peoples are as one, 

On, on!" 1 

l J. A. Edgerton. 



CONTENTS. 



Book First. 



A LOVE-LIT PATH TO GOD. 

CHAPTER PAGE 

I. Introductory Words 9 

I. The Gospel of Love 9 

II. Jesus of Nazareth and the Father, 1 1 

in. The Nature of the Kingdom . . 13 

II. God 16 

III. The Nature of God 18 

IV. Faith in God .20 

V. The Fatherhood of God and the 

Brotherhood of Man 22 

VI. God's Perfect Law of Liberty ... 24 
VII. The Kingdom of God; or, Universal 

Brotherhood 26 

I. The Supremacy of the Spiritual . 26 

11. Meekness 29 

hi. Peace 30 

IV. Unity of Spirit 31 

v. Equality 34 

vi. Self-sacrifice 38 

vii. Prayer 41 

viii. Truth 44 

ix. Freedom 45 

VIII. Evil; or, Lawlessness 47 

I. Worldliness 47 

II. The Lust of the Flesh 54 

in. The Evil Tongue 56 

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6 Contents. 

CHAPTER PAGE 

IX. Repentance; or, The New Birth ... 59 

X. Overcoming; or, Self-Mastery ... 63 

XL Death and Immortality 65 

Book Second. 

THE SPIRITUAL LIFE. 

CHAPTER PAGE 

I. The Nature of God and the Responsi- 
bilities of Man 69 

II. Faith in God 77 

III. God's Perfect Law of Liberty ... 79 

IV. Evil 82 

V. Truth 2>2> 

VI. The Kingdom of God 92 

Index in 



BOOK FIRST. 

A Love-lit Path to God. 



A LOVE-LIT PATH TO GOD 



CHAPTER I. 

INTRODUCTORY WORDS. 
I. THE GOSPEL OF LOVE. 

1. How beautiful are the feet of them 
that bring glad tidings of good things ! 

2. Jesus came and preached peace to 
you that were far off, and peace to them 
that were nigh. 

3. A lawyer asked him, Master, which 
is the great commandment in the law ? 
And he said unto him, Thou shalt love the 
Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with 
all thy soul, and with all thy mind. And 
a second like unto it is this, Thou shalt 
love thy neighbour as thyself. On these 
two commandments hangeth the whole 
law, and the prophets. 

4. There is none other commandment 
greater than these. 

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io A Love-lit Path to God. 

5. He that loveth not his brother whom 
he hath seen, cannot love God whom he 
hath not seen. 

6. He that looketh into the perfect law, 
the law of liberty, and so continueth, being 
not a hearer that forgetteth, but a doer 
that worketh, this man shall be blessed in 
his doing. 

7. Love is the fulfilment of the law. 

8. The names of the twelve apostles 
are these : The first, Simon, who is called 
Peter, and Andrew his brother ; James the 
son of Zebedee, and John his brother ; 
Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and 
Matthew the publican ; James the son 
of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus ; Simon the 
Cananaean, and Judas Iscariot. 

9. These twelve Jesus charged, saying, 
As ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of 
heaven is at hand. 

10. He that receiveth you receiveth me. 
n. He that heareth you heareth me; 

and he that rejecteth you rejecteth me. 

12. He that prophesieth speaketh unto 
men edification, and comfort, and consola- 
tion. 



Introductory Words. n 

13. Ye all can prophesy, that all may 
learn, and all may be comforted. 

14. The word of God is not bound. 

15. The word of truth is in all the 
world bearing fruit and increasing. 

16. The word of God worketh in you. 

17. The implanted or inborn word is 
able to save your souls. But be ye doers 
of the word, and not hearers only, delud- 
ing your own selves. 

18. The whole law is fulfilled in one 
wordy even in this ; Thou shalt love thy 
neighbour as thyself. 

II. JESUS OF NAZARETH AND THE FATHER. 

19. Jesus came into Galilee, preaching 
the gospel, and saying, The kingdom of 
God is at hand. 

20. Jesus coming into his own country 
taught them in their synagogue, insomuch 
that they were astonished, and said, 
Whence hath this man this wisdom ? Is 
not this the carpenter's son ? Is not his 
mother called Mary ? and his brethren, 
James, and Joseph, and Simon, and Judas? 
And his sisters, are they not all with us ? 



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21. Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith 
unto him, We have found him, of whom 
Moses in the law, and the prophets, did 
write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of 
Joseph. 

22. And when he was come into Jeru- 
salem, all the city was stirred, saying, Who 
is this ? And the multitudes said, This is 
the prophet, Jesus, from Nazareth of Galilee. 

23. And behold, one came to him and 
said, Good Master, what good thing shall 
I do, that I may have eternal life ? And 
he said unto him, Why callest thou me 
good ? none is good save one, even God. 

24. I seek not mine own glory. 

25. I am in the midst of you as he that 
serveth. 

26. The Son of man came not to be 
ministered unto, but to minister. 

27. And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, 
and do not the things which I say ? 

28. Not every one that saith unto me, 
Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom 
of heaven ; but he that doeth the will of 
my Father which is in heaven. 

29. I receive not glory from men. 



Introductory Words. 13 

30. How can ye believe, which receive 
glory one of another, and the glory that 
cometh from the only God, the only one, 
ye seek not ? 

31. Jesus lifting up his eyes to heaven, 
said, And this is life eternal, that they 
should know Thee the only true God. 

32. Every one that loveth, knoweth 
God. He that loveth not, knoweth not 
God; for God is love. 

33. I will declare Thy name unto my 
brethren. 

34. I pray, that they may all be one, that 
they may be perfected into one ; that the 
world may know that Thou lovedst them. 

35. These things I speak in the world,' 
that they may have my joy fulfilled in 
themselves. 

III. THE NATURE OF THE KINGDOM. 

36. And Jesus went about all the cities 
and the villages, teaching in their syna- 
gogues, and preaching the gospel of the 
kingdom. 

37. Being asked when the kingdom of 
God cometh, he answered, neither shall 



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they say, Lo here ! or, There ! for lo, the 
kingdom of God is within you. 

38. The kingdom of God is righteous- 
ness and peace and joy. 

39. The lust of the flesh, and the lust of 
the eyes, and the vainglory of life, is not 
of the Father, but is of the world. 

40. Be not fashioned according to this 
world : but be ye transformed by the re- 
newing of your mind, that ye may prove 
what is the good and acceptable and per- 
fect will of God. Abhor that which is 
evil ; cleave to that which is good. 

41. It is the spirit that quickeneth ; the 
flesh profiteth nothing : the words that I 
have spoken unto you are spirit, and are life. 

42. Jesus said If ye abide in my word, 
then are ye truly my disciples ; and ye 
shall know the truth, and the truth shall 
make you free. Verily, verily, I say unto 
you, Every one that committeth sin is the 
bondservant of sin. 

43. A commandment I give unto you, 
that ye love one another; By this shall 
all men know that ye are my disciples, if 
ye have love one to another. 



Introductory Words. 15 

44. This is my commandment, that ye 
love one another, even as I have loved 

you. 

45. These things have I spoken unto 
you, that ye should not be made to stum- 
ble. 

46. These things have I spoken unto 
you, that ye may have peace. 

47. These things have I spoken unto 
you, that my joy may be in you, and that 
your joy may be fulfilled. 

48. If ye love me, ye will keep my 
commandments. 

49. He that hath my commandments, 
and keepeth them, he it is that loveth 
me. 



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CHAPTER II. 

GOD. 

50. There is one God and Father of all, 
who is over all, and through all, and in all. 

51. Thou believest that there is one 
God ; thou doest well. 

52. We know that no idol is anything 
in the world, and that there is no God but 
one. 

53. One of the scribes came, and asked 
him, What commandment is the first of 
all ? Jesus answered, The first is, The 
Lord is our God ; the Lord is one : and 
thou shalt love the Lord thy God with 
all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and 
with all thy mind, and with all thy 
strength. The second is this, Thou shalt 
love thy neighbour as thyself. There is 
none other commandment greater than 
these. And the scribe said unto him, 
Of a truth, Teacher, thou hast well said 
that He is one ; and there is none other 
but He : and to love Him with all the 



God. 17 

heart, and with all the understanding, and 
with all the strength, and to love his 
neighbour as himself, is much more than 
all burnt offerings. Jesus said unto him, 
Thou art not far from the kingdom of 
God. 

54. Jesus lifting up his eyes to heaven, 
said, And this is life eternal, that they 
should know Thee the only true God. 



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CHAPTER III. 

THE NATURE OF GOD. 

55. God is a Spirit. 

56. God is love. 

57. God is light, and in Him is no 
darkness at all. 

58. God is faithful. 

59. He maketh His sun to rise on the 
evil and the good, and sendeth rain on the 
just and the unjust. 

60. He is kind toward the unthankful 
and evil. 

61. God is not a God of confusion, but 
of peace. 

62. God cannot be tempted with evil, 
and He Himself tempteth no man. 

63. Your heavenly Father is perfect. 

64. Ye should turn from vain things 
unto the living God, who made the heaven 
and the earth and the sea, who in the 
generations gone by suffered all the na- 
tions to walk in their own ways. And 



The Nature of God. 19 

yet He left not Himself without witness, 
in that He did good, and gave you from 
heaven rains and fruitful seasons, filling 
your hearts with food and gladness. 

65. God Himself giveth to all life. He 
made of one every nation of men that 
they should seek God, feel after Him, and 
find Him, though He is not far from each 
one of us : for in Him we live, and move, 
and have our being, For we are His off- 
spring. Being then the offspring of God, 
we ought not to think that the Godhead 
is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, 
graven by art and device of man. 

66. God is love. 

67. The bread of God is that which 
cometh down out of heaven, and giveth 
life unto the world. 

68. Who shall separate us from the 
love of God ? shall tribulation, or anguish, 
or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, 
or peril, or sword? Nay, in all these 
things we are more than conquerors. 
Neither death, nor life, nor principalities, 
nor things present, nor things to come, 
nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor 
any creature shall be able to separate us 
from the love of God. 



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CHAPTER IV. 

FAITH IN GOD. 

69. There is one God and Father of 
all. 

70. Take heed, brethren, lest there shall 
be in any one of you an evil heart of un- 
belief, in falling away from the living 
God : lest any one of you be hardened by 
the deceitfulness of sin. 

71. Wilt thou know, O man, that faith 
apart from works is barren ? For as the 
body apart from the spirit is dead, even 
so faith apart from works is dead. 

7 2. By works a man is justified. 

73. What doth it profit, my brethren, 
if a man say he hath faith, but have not 
works ? If a brother or sister be naked, 
and in lack of daily food, and one of you 
say unto them, Go in peace, be ye warmed 
and filled ; and yet ye give them not the 
things needful to the body ; what doth it 
profit ? Even so faith, if it have not 
works, is dead in itself. 



Faith in God. 21 

74. I will that thou affirm that they 
which have believed God may be careful 
to maintain good works. These things are 
good and profitable unto men : but shun 
foolish questionings, and genealogies, and 
strifes, and fightings about the law; for 
they are unprofitable and vain. Let our 
people learn to maintain good works for 
necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful. 

75. The end of the charge is love out 
of a pure heart and a good conscience and 
faith unfeigned. 

76. Now abideth faith, hope, love, these 
three ; and the greatest of these is love. 

TJ. Follow after love. 



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CHAPTER V. 

THE FATHERHOOD OF GOD AND THE BROTHER- 
HOOD OF MAN. 

78. There is one God and Father of all. 

79. God is love. 

80. We are His offspring. 

81. We are children of God: and if 
children, then heirs ; heirs of God. 

82. God gave us a spirit of love. 

83. Ye are all sons of God. 

84. All ye are brethren. 

85. A veil lieth upon their heart. But 
whensoever a man shall turn to the Lord, 
the veil is taken away. 

86. Like the Holy One which called 
you is holy, be ye yourselves also holy in 
all manner of living ; because it is written, 
Ye shall be holy ; for I am holy. 

87. Ye should walk worthily of God, 
who calleth you. 

88. Ye therefore shall be perfect, as 
your heavenly Father is perfect. 






The Fatherhood of God. 23 

89. Wherefore press on unto perfection. 

90. Behold what manner of love the 
Father hath bestowed upon us, that we 
should be called children of God : and 
such we are. We know that, if it shall 
be manifested, we shall be like Him. We 
shall see Him even as He is. And every 
one that hath this hope set on Him puri- 
fieth himself, even as He is pure. 

91. For the earnest expectation of the 
creation waiteth for the revealing of the 
sons of God. 



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CHAPTER VI. 

GOD'S PERFECT LAW OF LIBERTY. 

92. He that looketh into the perfect 
law, the law of liberty, and so continueth, 
being not a hearer that forgetteth, but a 
doer that worketh, this man shall be 
blessed in his doing. 

93. He that loveth his neighbour hath 
fulfilled the law. Love worketh no ill to 
his neighbour : love therefore is the fulfil- 
ment of the law. 

94. Howbeit if ye fulfil the royal law, 
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, 
ye do well. 

95. For the whole law is fulfilled in one 
word, even in this ; Thou shalt love thy 
neighbour as thyself. 

96. So speak ye, and so do, as men that 
are to be judged by a law of liberty. 

97. All things therefore whatsoever ye 
would that men should do unto you, even 
so do ye also unto them : for this is the 
law. 



God's Perfect Law of Liberty. 25 

98. The doers of a law shall be ac- 
counted righteous, these are a law unto 
themselves ; in that they shew the work 
of the law written in their hearts, their 
conscience bearing witness therewith. 



1. 



26 A Love-lit Path to God. 



CHAPTER VII. 

THE KINGDOM OF GOD, OR, UNIVERSAL 
BROTHERHOOD. 

I. THE SUPREMACY OF THE SPIRITUAL. 

99. A lawyer asked him, Master, which 
is the great commandment in the law ? 
And he said unto him, Thou shalt love the 
Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with 
all thy soul, and with all thy mind. And 
a second like unto it is this, Thou shalt 
love thy neighbour as thyself. On these 
two commandments hangeth the whole 
law, and the prophets. 

100. There is none other command- 
ment greater than these. 

101. He that loveth not his brother 
whom he hath seen, cannot love God 
whom he hath not seen. 

102. Thou shalt love thy neighbour as 
thyself. 

103. A commandment we had from the 
beginning, that we love one another. 

104. This is love of God, that we keep 



The Kingdom of God. 27 

His commandments : and His command- 
ments are not grievous. 

105. Rejoice in the Lord alway : Re- 
joice. In nothing be anxious. And the 
peace of God, which passeth all under- 
standing, shall guard your hearts and your 
thoughts. Brethren, whatsoever things 
are true, whatsoever things are just, what- 
soever things are pure, think on these 
things ; and the God of peace shall be 
with you. 

106. Live according to God in the 
spirit. 

107. The mind of the spirit is life and 
peace. 

108. The fruit of the spirit is love, joy, 
peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, 
faithfulness, meekness, temperance or 
self-control. 

109. Be ye loving as brethren : not 
rendering evil for evil, or reviling for re- 
viling ; but contrariwise blessing. 

1 10. Love one another from the heart 
fervently. 

in. Love your enemies, and do them 
good. 



28 A Love-lit Path to God. 

112. Render to no man evil for evil. 
Avenge not, yourselves. Be not overcome 
of evil, but overcome evil with good. 

113. Ye shall be perfect, as your heav- 
enly Father is perfect. 

114. Be thou an example in word, in 
manner of life, in love, in purity. 

115. Be ye kind one to another, tender- 
hearted, forgiving each other. 

1 16. Be ye therefore imitators of God, 
as beloved children ; and walk in love. 

117. Put on therefore, a heart of kind- 
ness, humility, longsuff ering ; forbearing 
one another, and forgiving each other, if 
any man have a complaint against any : 
put on love, which is the bond of perfect- 
ness. 

118. Watch ye, stand fast, be strong. 
Let all that ye do be done in love. 

119. If I speak with the tongues of 
men, but have not love, I am become 
sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. 
And if I have knowledge ; and if I have 
all faith, but have not love, I am nothing. 
Love suffereth long, and is kind ; love en- 
vieth not ; love vaunteth not itself, is not 






The Kingdom of God. 29 

puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, 
seeketh not its own, is not provoked, 
taketh not account of evil; rejoiceth not 
in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the 
truth ; beareth all things, hopeth all things, 
endureth all things. Love never faileth : 
but whether there be tongues, they shall 
cease ; whether there be knowledge, it 
shall be done away. For we know in part, 
but when that which is perfect is come, 
that which is in part shall be done away. 
But now abideth faith, hope, love, these 
three; and the greatest of these is love. 

120. Follow after love. 

II. MEEKNESS. 

121. Blessed are the meek. 

122. Be not wise in your own conceits. 

123. I say to every man, not to think 
of himself more highly than he ought to 
think. 

124. Ye know that the rulers of the 
Gentiles lord it over them, and exercise 
authority over them. Not so shall it be 
among you. 

125. All ye are brethren. 



30 A Love-lit Path to God. 

126. All things therefore whatsoever 
ye would that men should do unto you, 
even so do ye also unto them : for this is 
the law. 

127. Who is wise and understanding 
among you ? let him shew by his good 
life his works in meekness of wisdom. 

128. Let your gentleness be known 
unto all men. 

129. Be loving as brethren, tender- 
hearted, humbleminded. 

III. PEACE. 

130. God is not a God of confusion, 
but of peace. 

131. Be ye therefore imitators of God, 
as beloved children ; and walk in love. 

132. Let all that ye do be done in love. 

133. Let all things be done in order. 

134. Follow after things which make 
for peace. 

135. Honour thy father and mother. 

136. Fathers, provoke not your chil- 
dren. 

137. Be thou an example in love. 



The Kingdom of God. 31 

138. Be at peace among yourselves. 

139. Follow after peace with all men. 

140. Put up thy sword. 

141. Let peace rule in your hearts, to 
the which ye were called in one body. 

142. Hereunto were ye called, that ye 
should inherit a blessing. 

143. The kingdom of God is righteous- 
ness and peace and joy. 

144. Glory to God in the highest, and 
on earth peace among men. 

IV. UNITY OF SPIRIT. 

145. God made of one every nation of 
men. 

146. We are members one of another. 

147. Love one another from the heart 
fervently. 

148. Be ye likeminded, loving as breth- 
ren. 

149. Rejoice with them that rejoice; 
weep with them that weep. 

150. Be of the same mind, having the 
same love, being of one accord; doing 
nothing through faction or through vain- 



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glory, but in lowliness of mind ; have this 
mind in you, which was also in Jesus. 

151. Do all things without murmurings 
and disputings ; that ye may be blameless 
and harmless children of God without 
blemish. 

152. Ye are all sons of God. 

153. All ye are brethren. 

1 54. Ye are fellow-citizens of the house- 
hold of God. 

155. If a house be divided against it- 
self, that house will not be able to stand. 

156. I praise you not, that ye come to- 
gether : For when ye come together in the 
church, in congregation, divisions exist 
among you. 

157. Now this I mean, that each one of 
you saith, I am of Paul ; and I of Apollos ; 
and I of Cephas. 

158. Ye are yet carnal: for whereas 
there is among you jealousy and strife, 
are ye not carnal ? 

159. Now I beseech you, brethren, that 
there be no divisions among you ; but that 
ye be perfected together in the same 
mind. 



The Kingdom of God. 33 

160. Put on love, which is the bond of 
perfectness. 

161. I therefore, beseech you to walk 
worthily of the calling wherewith ye were 
called, giving diligence to keep the unity 
of the spirit in the bond of peace. 

162. Jesus saith believe me, the hour 
cometh, when neither in this mountain, 
nor in Jerusalem, shall ye worship the 
Father. But the hour cometh, and now 
is, when the true worshippers shall wor- 
ship the Father in spirit and truth ; for 
such doth the Father seek to be His wor- 
shippers. God is a spirit : and they that 
worship Him must worship in spirit and 
truth. 

163. This is love of God, that we keep 
His commandments. 

164. A commandment we had from the 
beginning, that we love one another. 

165. He that loveth not his brother 
whom he hath seen, cannot love God 
whom he hath not seen. 

166. Thou shalt love thy neighbour as 
thyself. 

167. Jesus lifting up his eyes to heaven, 



34 A Love-lit Path to God. 

said, this is life eternal, that they should 
know Thee the only true God. 

1 68. Every one that loveth knoweth 
God, for God is love. 

169. I will declare Thy name unto my 
brethren. 

170. I pray that they may all be one ; 
that they may be perfected into one ; that 
the world may know that Thou lovedst 
them. 

V. EQUALITY. 

171. We are children of God. 

172. We are His offspring. 

173. Unto me hath God shewed that I 
should not call any man common or un- 
clean. 

174. Owe no man anything, save to 
love one another : for he that loveth his 
neighbour hath fulfilled the law. Love 
worketh no ill to his neighbour : love there- 
fore is the fulfilment of the law. 

175. All ye are brethren. 

176. Love one another from the heart 
fervently. 

177. Love edifieth or buildeth up. 



The Kingdom of God. 35 

178. Through love be servants one to 
another. 

179. Ye yourselves know that these 
hands ministered unto my necessities, and 
to them that were with me. 

180. I will that thou affirm that they 
which have believed God may be careful 
to maintain good works or profess honest 
occupations. These things are good and 
profitable unto men : but shun foolish ques- 
tionings, and genealogies, and strifes, and 
fightings about the law ; for they are un- 
profitable and vain. Let our people learn 
to maintain good works for necessary uses 
or wants that they be not unfruitful. 

181. Be ambitious to work with your 
hands. 

182. Now complete the doing, so there 
may be completion out of your ability. If 
the readiness is there, it is acceptable ac- 
cording as a man hath, not according as he 
hath not. For I say not this, that others 
may be eased, and ye distressed : but by 
equality ; your abundance being a supply 
for their want, that their abundance also 
may become a supply for your want ; that 
there may be equality. 



36 A Love-lit Path to God. 

183. Shew ye therefore proof of your 
love. 

184. And behold, one came to him and 
said, Good Master, what good thing shall 
I do, that I may have eternal life ? And 
he said unto him, Why callest thou me 
good ? none is good, save one, even God. 
But if thou wouldst enter into life, keep 
the commandments. Thou shalt not kilL 
Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou 
shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false 
witness, Honour thy father and thy mother: 
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 
The young man saith unto him, All these 
things have I observed : what lack I yet ? 
Jesus said unto him, If thou wouldst be 
perfect, go, sell that thou hast, and give 
to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure 
in heaven : and come, follow me. But 
when the young man heard the saying, 
he went away sorrowful : for he was one 
that had great possessions. 

185. Be ye free from the love of money. 

186. Be ready to distribute. 

187. All things therefore whatsoever ye 
would that men should do unto you, even 



The Kingdom of God. 37 

so do ye also unto them : for this is the 
law. 

188. Thou shalt love thy neighbour as 
thyself. 

189. Through love be servants one to 
another. 

190. We exhort you, that ye be ambi- 
tious to work with your hands, that ye 
may walk honestly, and may have need of 
nothing. 

191. And all that believed were to- 
gether, and had all things common ; and 
they sold their possessions and goods, and 
parted them to all, according as any man 
had need. And day by day, continuing 
stedfastly with one accord, they did take 
their food with gladness and singleness of 
heart, praising God. 

192. God is love. 

193. His divine power hath granted 
unto us all things that pertain unto life 
and godliness. 

194. Every good gift and every perfect 
boon is from the Father of lights, with 
whom can be no variation. 

195. Be not anxious, saying, What shall 



38 A Love-lit Path to God. 

we eat ? or, What shall we drink ? or, 
Wherewithal, shall we be clothed ? For 
your heavenly Father knoweth that ye 
have need of all these things. But seek 
ye first His kingdom, and His righteous- 
ness ; and all these things shall be added 
unto you. 

196. And the multitude of them that 
believed were of one heart and soul : they 
had all things common. And great grace 
was upon them all. For neither was there 
among them any that lacked. 

VI. SELF-SACRIFICE. 

197. And he said unto all, If any man 
would come after me, let him deny him- 
self, and take up his cross daily, and follow 
me. 

198. Take my yoke upon you, and learn 
of me ; For my yoke is easy, and my bur- 
den is light. 

199. These things have I spoken unto 
you, that my joy may be in you, and that 
your joy may be fulfilled. 

200. When he saw the multitudes, he 
was moved with compassion for them, 



The Kingdom of God. 39 

because they were distressed and scat- 
tered, as sheep not having a shepherd. 
Then saith he unto his disciples, The har- 
vest truly is plenteous, but the labourers 
are few. 

201. Lift up your eyes, and look on the 
fields, they are white unto harvest. 

202. Ye, brethren, were called for free- 
dom ; through love be servants one to 
another. For the whole law is fulfilled in 
one word, even in this ; Thou shalt love 
thy neighbour as thyself. 

203. Be rich in good works. 

204. In love be tenderly affectioned one 
to another ; in diligence not slothful ; fer- 
vent in spirit ; serving the Lord ; rejoicing 
in hope ; patient in tribulation ; continuing 
stedfastly in prayer ; given to hospitality. 
Rejoice with them that rejoice ; weep with 
them that weep. 

205. Let no man seek his own, but each 
his neighbour's good. 

206. Bear ye one another's burdens. 

207. I was an hungred, and ye gave 
me meat : I was thirsty, and ye gave me 
drink : I was a stranger, and ye took me 



40 A Love-lit Path to God. 

in ; naked, and ye clothed me : I was sick, 
and ye visited me : I was in prison, and ye 
came unto me. Verily I say unto you, 
Inasmuch as ye did it unto one of these 
my brethren, ye did it unto me. 

208. He that hath my commandments, 
and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me. 

209. Now we that are strong ought to 
bear the infirmities of the weak, and not 
to please ourselves. 

210. Jesus said, A certain man was 
going down from Jerusalem to Jericho ; 
and he fell among robbers, which both 
stripped him and beat him, and departed, 
leaving him half dead. But a certain 
Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where 
he was : and when he saw him, he was 
moved with compassion, and came to him, 
and bound up his wounds, pouring on them 
oil ; and he set him on his own beast, and 
brought him to an inn, and took care of 
him. And on the morrow he took out two 
pence, and gave them to the host, and said, 
Take care of him ; and whatsoever thou 
spendest more, I, when I come back again, 
will repay thee. 



The Kingdom of God. 41 

211. If a brother or sister be naked, and 
in lack of daily food, and one of you say 
unto them, Go in peace, be ye warmed and 
filled ; and yet ye give them not the things 
needful to the body ; what doth it profit ? 

212. And he said to him that had bid- 
den him, When thou makest a dinner or a 
supper, call not thy friends, nor thy breth- 
ren, nor thy kinsmen, nor rich neighbours ; 
lest they also bid thee again, and a recom- 
pense be made thee. But when thou 
makest a feast, bid the poor, the maimed, 
the lame, the blind : and thou shalt be 
blessed ; because they have not wherewith 
to recompense thee. 

213. Love one another from the heart 
fervently. 

214. If I bestow all my goods to feed 
the poor ; but have not love, it profiteth 
be nothing. 

215. Let all that ye do be done in love. 

VII. PRAYER. 

216. God is love. 

217. His divine power hath granted 
unto us all things that pertain unto life 
and godliness. 



42 A Love-lit Path to God. 

218. Ye lust, and have not : ye kill, and 
covet, and cannot obtain : ye fight and war ; 
ye have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask, 
and receive not, because ye ask amiss. 

219. Every good gift and every perfect 
boon is from the Father of lights, with 
whom can be no variation. 

220. What man is there of you, who, if 
his son shall ask him for a loaf, will give 
him a stone ? If ye then, give good gifts 
unto your children, how much more shall 
your Father which is in heaven give good 
things to them that ask Him ? All things 
therefore whatsoever ye would that men 
should do unto you, even so do ye also 
unto them : for this is the law. 

221. God your Father knoweth what 
things ye have need of, before ye ask Him. 

222. But seek ye first His kingdom, 
and His righteousness; and all these 
things shall be added unto you. 

223. And the multitude of them that 
believed were of one heart and soul : they 
had all things common. And great grace 
was upon them all. For neither was there 
among them any that lacked. 



The Kingdom of God. 43 

224. Pray to thy Father. 

225. If thou art offering thy gift at the 
altar, and there rememberest that thy 
brother hath aught against thee, leave 
there thy gift before the altar, and go thy 
way, first be reconciled to thy brother, and 
then come and offer thy gift. 

226. And whensoever ye stand praying, 
forgive, if ye have aught against any one. 

227. For he that loveth not his brother 
whom he hath seen, cannot love God whom 
he hath not seen, 

228. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God 
with all thy heart, and with all thy soul. 

229. Have this mind in you, which was 
also in Jesus. 

230. And it came to pass in these days, 
that he went out into the mountain to 
pray ; and he continued all night in prayer 
to God. 

231. And every day he was teaching in 
the temple ; and every night he went out, 
and lodged in the mount that is called the 
mount of Olives. And all the people 
came early in the morning to him in the 
temple, to hear him. 



44 A Love-lit Path to God. 

232. And after he had sent the multi- 
tudes away, he went up into the mountain 
apart to pray : and when even was come, 
he was there alone. 

VIII. TRUTH. 

233. Jesus said, If ye abide in my word, 
ye shall know the truth. 

234. This is my commandment, that ye 
love one another. 

2 35- Quench not the spirit. 

236. It is the spirit that quickeneth. 

237. The spirit is the truth. 

238. The truth shall make you free. 

239. The whole law is fulfilled in one 
word, even in this ; Thou shalt love thy 
neighbour as thyself. 

240. The word of God worketh in you. 

241. The word of truth is in all the 
world bearing fruit and increasing. 

242. The word of God is not bound. 

243. Seek, and ye shall find. 

244. He that is spiritual, examineth all 
things. 

245. Prove all things ; hold fast that 



The Kingdom of God. 45 

which is good ; abstain from every form of 
evil. 

246. Be blameless and harmless, chil- 
dren of God without blemish, seen as 
lights in the world. 

IX. FREEDOM. 

247. Verily, verily, I say unto you, 
Every one that committeth sin is the 
bondservant of sin. 

248. Of what a man is overcome, of the 
same is he also brought into bondage. 

249. Jesus said, If ye abide in my word, 
ye shall know the truth, and the truth 
shall make you free. 

250. This is my commandment, that ye 
love one another. 

251. Love edifieth or buildeth up. 

252. He that looketh into the perfect 
law, the law of liberty, and so continueth, 
being not a hearer that forgetteth, but 
a doer that worketh, this man shall be 
blessed in his doing. 

253. The whole law is fulfilled in one 
word, even in this ; Thou shalt love thy 
neighbour as thyself. 



46 A Love-lit Path to God. 

254. The implanted or inborn word is 
able to save your souls. But be ye doers 
of the word, and not hearers only, delud- 
ing your own selves. 

255. If any one is a hearer of the word, 
and not a doer, he is like unto a man be- 
holding his natural face, or the face of his 
birth in a mirror : for he beholdeth him- 
self, and goeth away, and straightway for- 
getteth what manner of man he was. 

256. All things therefore whatsoever 
ye would that men should do unto you, 
even so do ye also unto them : for this is 
the law. 

257. Owe no man anything, save to 
love one another: for he that loveth his 
neighbour hath fulfilled the law. Thou 
shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Love 
worketh no ill to his neighbour: love 
therefore is the fulfilment of the law. 

258. The kingdom of God is righteous- 
ness and peace and joy. 

259. Our Father which art in heaven, 
Hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom 
come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, 
so on earth. 



Evil or Lawlessness. 47 



CHAPTER VIII. 

EVIL OR LAWLESSNESS. 
I. WORLDLINESS. 

260. Every one that doeth sin doeth 
lawlessness : sin is lawlessness. 

261. All unrighteousness is sin. 

262. To him that knoweth to do good, 
and doeth it not, to him it is sin. 

263. Keep unspotted from the world. 

264. The lust of the flesh, and the lust 
of the eyes, and the vainglory of life, is 
not of the Father, but is of the world. 

265. Be not fashioned according to this 
world : but be ye transformed by the re- 
newing of your mind, that ye may prove 
what is the good and acceptable and per- 
fect will of God. Abhor that which is 
evil ; cleave to that which is good. 

266. Lust not after evil things ; as it 
is written, The people sat down to eat 
and drink, and rose up to play. Flee 
from idolatry. 



48 A Love-lit Path to God. 

267. The kingdom of God is not eating 
and drinking. 

268. These are they that have heard 
the word, and the cares of the world, and 
the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts 
of other things entering in, choke the 
word, and it becometh unfruitful. 

269. Take heed lest your hearts be 
overcharged with surfeiting, and drunk- 
enness. 

270. Look therefore carefully how ye 
walk, not as unwise, but as wise ; redeem- 
ing the time. Be not drunken with wine, 
wherein is riot. 

271. It is good not to drink wine, nor 
to do anything whereby thy brother 
stumbleth. 

272. Let no man put a stumblingblock 
in his brother's way, or an occasion of 
falling. 

273. Woe unto the world because of 
occasions of stumbling ! 

274. They that are after the flesh do 
mind the things of the flesh ; the mind of 
the flesh is death ; because the mind of 
the flesh is enmity against God. 



Evil or Lawlessness. 49 

275. Now the works of the flesh are 
idolatry, enmities, strife, jealousies, wraths, 
factions, divisions, parties, envyings, drunk- 
enness, and such like. 

276. Whereas there is among you jeal- 
ousy and strife, are ye not carnal ? 

277. If ye have bitter jealousy and fac- 
tion in your heart, glory not against the 
truth. This wisdom is not a wisdom 
from above, but is earthly, sensual, or ani- 
mal. For where jealousy and faction are, 
there is confusion and every vile deed. But 
the wisdom that is from above is pure, 
peaceable, gentle, full of good fruits, with- 
out variance. 

278. If ye bite and devour one another, 
take heed that ye be not consumed one 
of another. 

279. Owe no man anything, save to 
love one another: for he that loveth his 
neighbour hath fulfilled the law. Thou 
shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt 
not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt 
not covet, and if there be any other com- 
mandment, it is summed up in this word, 
namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour 



So A Love-lit Path to God. 

as thyself. Love worketh no ill to his 
neighbour : love therefore is the fulfil- 
ment of the law. 

280. Take heed, lest there shall be in 
any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, 
in falling away from the living God : lest 
any one of you be hardened by the deceit- 
fulness of sin. 

281. For from within, out of the heart 
of men, evil thoughts proceed, thefts, mur- 
ders, adulteries, covetings, deceit, an evil 
eye, railing, pride : all these evil things 
proceed from within, and defile the man. 

282. Know this, that grievous times 
shall come. For men shall be lovers of 
self, lovers of money, boastful, haughty, 
railers, unthankful, unholy, without natu- 
ral affection, implacable, slanderers, with- 
out self-control, fierce, no lovers of good, 
traitors, headstrong, puffed up. 

283. They profess that they know God ; 
but by their works they deny Him, being 
disobedient, and unto good work reprobate. 

284. These are murmurers, complainers, 
shewing respect of persons for the sake of 
advantage. 



Evil or Lawlessness. 51 

285. And because iniquity shall be multi- 
plied, the love of the many shall wax cold. 

286. Do not ye after their works ; for 
they say, and do not. 

287. Wherefore, brethren, be ye sted- 
fast, always abounding in the work of the 
Lord. 

288. Abide thou in the things which 
thou hast learned. 

289. Hold the pattern of sound words 
which thou hast heard, in faith and love. 

290. Owe no man anything, save to love 
one another. 

291. All ye are brethren. 

292. If there come into your synagogue 
or assembly a man with a gold ring, in 
fine clothing, and there come in also a 
poor man in vile clothing ; and ye have 
regard to him that weareth the fine cloth- 
ing, and say, Sit thou here in a good place ; 
and ye say to the poor man, Stand thou 
there, or sit under my footstool ; are ye 
not divided in your own mind, and become 
judges with evil thoughts? Ye have dis- 
honoured the poor man. Howbeit if ye 
fulfil the royal law, Thou shalt love thy 



52 A Love-lit Path to God. 

neighbour as thyself, ye do well : but if 
ye have respect of persons, ye commit sin, 
being convicted by the law as transgres- 
sors. 

293. Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, 
as it is written : This people honoureth 
me with their lips, but their heart is far 
from me. But in vain do they worship 
me, teaching as their doctrines the pre- 
cepts of men. Ye leave the command- 
ment of God, and hold fast the tradition 
of men. 

294. Ye outwardly appear righteous unto 
men, but inwardly ye are full of hypocrisy 
and iniquity. 

295. Ye shut the kingdom of heaven 
against men : for ye enter not in yourselves, 
neither suffer ye them that are entering 
in to enter. 

296. Putting away therefore all hypoc- 
risies, as newborn babes, long for the spi- 
ritual milk which is without guile, that ye 
may grow thereby unto salvation. 

297. Be ye free from the love of money. 

298. They that desire to be rich fall 
into a temptation and a snare and many 
foolish and hurtful lusts. For the love of 



Evil or Lawlessness. 53 

money is a root of all kinds of evil : which 
some reaching after have been led astray, 
and have pierced themselves through with 
many sorrows. Flee these things; and 
follow after righteousness, godliness, love, 
patience, meekness. 

299. It is easier for a camel to go 
through a needle's eye, than for a rich 
man to enter into the kingdom of God. 

300. No man can serve two masters : 
for either he will hate the one, and love 
the other ; or else he will hold to one, and 
despise the other. Ye cannot serve God 
and mammon. 

301. Lay not up for yourselves treas- 
ures upon the earth, where moth and rust 
doth consume, and where thieves break 
through and steal : but lay up for your- 
selves treasures in heaven where neither 
moth nor rust doth consume, and where 
thieves do not break through nor steal: 
for where thy treasure is, there will thy 
heart be also. 

302. Go to now, ye that say, To-day or 
to-morrow we will go into this city, and 
spend a year there, and trade, and get 
gain : whereas ye know not what shall be 



54 A Love-lit Path to God. 

on the morrow. What is your life ? For 
ye are a vapour, that appeareth for a little 
time, and then vanisheth away. 

303. Because thou sayest, I am rich, 
and have gotten riches, and have need of 
nothing ; and knowest not that thou art 
the wretched one and miserable and poor 
and blind and naked. 

304. Take heed, and keep yourselves 
from all covetousness : for a man's life 
consisteth not in the abundance of the 
things which he possesseth. 

II. THE LUST OF THE FLESH. 

305. The lust of the flesh is of the 
world. 

306. Be not fashioned according to this 
world. 

307. Remember ye the words which 
have been spoken by the apostles ; how 
that they said there shall be mockers, 
walking after their own ungodly lusts. 
These are they who make separations, 
sensual, or animal, having not the spirit. 

308. For they that are after the flesh 
do mind the things of the flesh ; but they 



Evil or Lawlessness. 55 

that are after the spirit the things of the 
spirit. The mind of the flesh is death : 
because the mind of the flesh is enmity 
against God. 

309. The flesh profiteth nothing. 

310. The mind of the spirit is life and 
peace. 

311. Walk by the spirit, and ye shall 
not fulfil the lust of the flesh ; for these 
are contrary the one to the other. 

312. I beseech you as sojourners and 
pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, 
which war against the soul. 

313. Ye have heard that it was said, 
Thou shalt not commit adultery : but I 
say unto you, that every one that looketh 
on a woman to lust after her hath com- 
mitted adultery with her already in his 
heart. 

314. Thou shalt not commit adultery, 
thou shalt not covet. 

315. Let marriage be had in honour 
among all. 

316. Make not provision for the flesh, 
to fulfil the lusts thereof. 

317. Let not sin reign in your mortal 



5 6 A Love-lit Path to God. 

body, that ye should obey the lusts 
thereof. 

318. Make dead therefore your pas- 
sion, evil desire, and covetousness. 

319. They that are of Jesus have cruci- 
fied the flesh with the passions and the 
lusts thereof. 

III. THE EVIL TONGUE. 

320. If any man thinketh himself to be 
religious while he bridleth not his tongue 
but deceiveth his heart, this man's reli- 
gion is vain. 

321. Now if we put the horses' bridles 
into their mouths, that they may obey us, 
we turn about their whole body also. 
Behold, the ships also, though they are so 
great, and are driven by rough winds, are 
yet turned about by a very small rudder, 
whither the impulse of the steersman 
willeth. So the tongue also is a little 
member, and boasteth great things. Be- 
hold, how much wood is kindled by how 
small a fire ! And the tongue is a fire : 
the world of iniquity among our members 
is the tongue ; it is a restless evil, it is 
full of deadly poison. Therewith bless 



Evil or Lawlessness. 57 

we the Lord and Father ; and therewith 
curse we men, which are made after the 
likeness of God : out of the same mouth 
cometh forth blessing and cursing. My 
brethren, these things ought not so to be. 

322. Now put ye away all these ; anger, 
wrath, railing, shameful speaking out of 
your mouth. 

323. The things which proceed out of 
the mouth come forth out of the heart ; 
and they defile the man. 

324. Out of the abundance of the heart 
the mouth speaketh. The good man out 
of his good treasure bringeth forth good 
things : and the evil man out of his evil 
treasure bringeth forth evil things. And 
I say unto you, that every idle word that 
men shall speak, they shall give account 
thereof. 

325. Let your yea be yea, and your 
nay, nay; that ye fall not under judge- 
ment. 

326. Wherefore, putting away false- 
hood, speak ye truth each one with his 
neighbour. 

327. Let no corrupt speech proceed 



58 A Love-lit Path to God. 

out of your mouth, but such as is good 
for edifying. 

328. Do all things without murmurings 
and disputings. 

329. Speak not one against another, 
brethren. He that speaketh against a 
brother, or judgeth his brother, speaketh 
against the law: if thou judgest, thou art 
not a doer of the law. 

330. Judge not, that ye be not judged. 

331. Murmur not, brethren, one against 
another, that ye be not judged. 



Repentance, or, the New Birth. 59 



CHAPTER IX. 

REPENTANCE, OR, THE NEW BIRTH. 

332. Jesus came into Galilee, preach- 
ing, and saying, repent ye. 

333. And he called unto him the 
twelve, and began to send them forth by 
two and two. And they went out, and 
preached that men should repent. 

334. There is joy in the presence of 
the angels of God over one sinner that 
repenteth. 

335. I declared throughout all the 
country of Judaea, and also to the Gen- 
tiles, that they should repent and turn to 
God, doing works worthy of repentance. 

336. Let every one that nameth the 
name of the Lord depart from unright- 
eousness. 

337. Ye must be born anew. 

338. And he called to him a little 
child, and set him in the midst of them, 
and said, Verily I say unto you, Except 
ye turn, and become as little children, ye 



60 A Love-lit Path to God. 

shall in no wise enter into the kingdom 
of heaven. 

339. Blessed are the pure in heart. 

340. Walk in newness of life. Be 
dead unto sin, but alive unto God. 

341. Be ye transformed by the renew- 
ing of your mind, that ye may prove what 
is the good and acceptable and perfect 
will of God. Abhor that which is evil ; 
cleave to that which is good. 

342. Blessed are they that hunger and 
thirst after righteousness : for they shall 
be filled. 

343. Put away your former manner of 
life, the old man, which waxeth corrupt 
after the lusts of deceit ; and be renewed 
in the spirit of your mind, and put on the 
new man, which after God hath been 
created in righteousness and holiness of 
truth. 

Wherefore, putting away falsehood, 
speak ye truth each one with his neigh- 
bour : for we are members one of another. 
Let him that stole steal no more : but 
rather let him labour, working with his 
hands the thing that is good, that he may 
have whereof to give to him that hath 



Repentance, or, the New Birth. 61 

need. Let no corrupt speech proceed 
out of your mouth, but such as is good 
for edifying, that it may give grace to 
them that hear. And grieve not the 
Holy Spirit of God. Let all bitterness, 
and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and 
railing, be put away from you, with all 
malice : and be ye kind one to another, 
tender-hearted, forgiving each other. 

344. Be ye therefore imitators of God, 
as beloved children ; and walk in love. 

345. Make dead your passion, evil de- 
sire, and covetousness, the which is idola- 
try. Put ye also away all these ; anger, 
wrath, malice, railing, shameful speaking 
out of your mouth; seeing that ye have 
put off the old man with his doings, and 
have put on the new man, which is being 
renewed unto knowledge after the image 
of Him that created him. Put on there- 
fore, a heart of compassion, kindness, 
humility, meekness, longsuffering ; for- 
bearing one another, and forgiving each 
other ; put on love, which is the bond of 
perfectness. 

346. Awake, thou that sleepest, and 
arise from the dead. 



62 A Love4it Path to God. 

347. He that loveth not abideth in 
death. 

348. Seeing ye have purified your souls 
in your obedience to the truth unto un- 
feigned love of the brethren, love one 
another from the heart fervently : having 
been begotten again, through the word 
of God, which liveth and abideth. 

349. The whole law is fulfilled in one 
word, even in this ; Thou shalt love thy 
neighbour as thyself. 

350. And this is the word of good 
tidings which was preached unto you. 

351. Putting away therefore all wicked- 
ness, all guile, and hypocrisies, as new- 
born babes, long for the spiritual milk 
which is without guile, that ye may grow 
thereby unto salvation. 



Overcoming, or, Self -Mastery. 63 



CHAPTER X. 

OVERCOMING, OR, SELF-MASTERY. 

352. Ye shall be perfect, as your heav- 
enly Father is perfect. 

353. Keep unspotted from the world. 

354. God gave us a spirit of power and 
love and discipline. 

355. Whatsoever is begotten of God 
overcometh the world. 

356. To him that overcometh, to him 
will I give to eat of the tree of life, which 
is in the Paradise of God. 

357.* I will give unto him that is athirst 
of the fountain of the water of life freely. 

358. He that is athirst, let him come: 
he that will, let him take the water of life 
freely. 

359. All things therefore whatsoever ye 
would that men should do unto you, even 
so do ye also unto them : for this is the law. 

360. Let peace rule in your hearts, to 
the which ye were called in one body. 



64 A Love-lit Path to God. 

361. Work out your own salvation. 

362. Be not overcome of evil, but over- 
come evil with good. 

363. In your patience ye shall win your 
souls. 

364. Let patience have its perfect work, 
that ye may be perfect and entire, lacking 
in nothing. 

365. Wherefore press on unto perfec- 
tion. 

366. Behold what manner of love the 
Father hath bestowed upon us, that we 
should be called children of God : and 
such we are. We know that, if it shall be 
manifested, we shall be like Him. We 
shall see Him even as He is. And every 
one that hath this hope set on Him purifi- 
eth himself, even as He is pure. 

367. For the earnest expectation of the 
creation waiteth for the revealing of the 
sons of God. 



Death and Immortality. 65 



CHAPTER XI. 

DEATH AND IMMORTALITY. 

368. Though our outward man is de- 
caying, yet our inward man is renewed 
day by day. We look not at the things 
which are seen, but at the things which 
are not seen : for the things which are 
seen are temporal ; but the things which 
are not seen are eternal. 

369. For we know that if our bodily 
frame be dissolved, we have a building 
from God, a house not made with hands, 
eternal-, in the heavens. 

370. If there is a natural body, there is 
also a spiritual body. The first man is 
of the earth, earthy : the second man is of 
heaven. 

371. Let not your heart be troubled. 
In my Father's house are many mansions 
or abiding-places. And if I go I will re- 
ceive you unto myself ; that where I am, 
there ye may be also. 

372. Jesus said, Father, into thy hands 



66 A Love-lit Path to God. 

I commend my spirit : and having said 
this, he gave up the ghost. 

373. Being put to death in the flesh, 
but quickened in the spirit ; in which also 
he went and preached unto the spirits in 
prison, which aforetime were disobedient. 

374. The sting of death is sin. 

375. Exercise thyself unto godliness : 
godliness is profitable, having promise of 
the life which now is, and of that which 
is to come. 

376. Be ye therefore imitators of God, 
as beloved children ; and walk in love. 

377. God willeth that all men should 
be saved, and come to the knowledge of 
the truth. 

378. Behold the tabernacle of God is 
with men, and He shall dwell with them, 
and they shall be His peoples, and God 
Himself shall be with them : and He shall 
wipe away every tear from their eyes ; 
and death shall be no more ; neither shall 
there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, 
any more. 



BOOK SECOND. 

The Spiritual Life. 



THE SPIRITUAL LIFE 



CHAPTER I. 



THE NATURE OF GOD AND THE RESPONSIBIL- 
ITIES OF MAN. 



It is as natural for mankind to believe 
in God as it is natural for the flowers to 
turn to the sun ; even the most unde- 
veloped savages are imbued with this uni- 
versal idea. 

The prevailing belief to-day is that God 
embraces both the Mother and Father 
principle. 

" No man hath beheld God," but each 
individual mind has formed a more or less 
definite conception of the Creator. 

We are told that our " heavenly Father 
is perfect," that " God is love/' " God is 
light/' "God is spirit," and also that "the 
Spirit is the truth." We are the " chil- 
dren," the " offspring " of God, and there- 

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*jo The Spiritual Life. 

fore we are partakers of His divine nature, 
which at present finds manifestation on 
earth by using the physical body as a me- 
dium of expression. 

Man has transformed to a greater or less 
degree the spiritual nature inherited from 
God, and has rendered it imperfect ; but 
the progress of civilization, " the ascent of 
man/' reveals a desire on his part to attain 
once more his natural state, to become 
perfect as his " heavenly Father is per- 
fect." 

God is frequently referred to in such 
vague terms as the " Unseen Energy," and 
" First Cause." These expressions seem 
cold and loveless, and the idea they con- 
vey of God, as an unincorporated force or 
principle, does not satisfy the heart of 
man. 

God is the loving Father of all, and the 
many souls who yearn for God can better 
think of Him as the brooding " Over-soul," 
or " Over-heart ; " they love and revere 
Him in the same sense that they love 
their earthly parents, and such we believe 
God seeks or desires to be His worship- 
ers. 



The Nature of God. 71 

Although God may be spirit, it is com- 
forting and satisfying to feel that He pos- 
sesses a distinct individuality, and that 
from His throbbing heart ever emanate 
the waves of love which nourish the spirit- 
ual world. 

Chemistry reveals certain constituents 
of the physical body, but the world is just 
awakening to the importance of consider- 
ing the nature of the spirit, or mind, and 
its mode of manifestation. As yet we 
know nothing of its composition. That 
it is in substance far more exquisitely re- 
fined than are the particles which consti- 
tute earthly matter, we can readily believe, 
and also that it must indeed be most sub- 
tile to admit of confinement in the human 
organism. Since "the spirit is life," or a 
dynamic force, we may conceive that after 
death it immediately assumes a form meas- 
urably similar in appearance to the physi- 
cal body which it has vacated, in that the 
identity of the individual is preserved. 

One has said : " As a man thinketh in 
his heart, so is he ;" thus in spirit we are 
what our thoughts make us. Marcus Aure- 
lius observes : " Such as are thy habitual 



72 The Spiritual Life. 

thoughts, such also will be the character 
of thy mind, for the soul is dyed by the 
thoughts/' 

Man is at present imperfect, but when 
in the fullness of time his thought, through 
self-discipline and self-mastery, has become 
sublimated, he will be pure in spirit as is 
his heavenly Father. He will be love as 
"God is love." He will be like God. 1 
"The earnest expectation of the creation 
waiteth for the revealing of the sons of 
God." 

ii. 

Harmony and order are the manifesta- 
tions of love ; God is not a God of wrath 
and confusion, but of peace. 2 Our " heav- 
enly Father is perfect." 

God should not be regarded as an es- 
pecial Providence, as unjust, as a partial 
Father bestowing gifts and favors on cer- 
tain of His children, and withholding the 
same from others. "God is faithful," 3 
for " love never faileth ; " 4 His affection, 
goodness, beneficence, are without vari- 

i i John iii. 2. % 1 Cor. i. 9. 

2 1 Cor. xiv. 33. * 1 Cor. xiii. 8. 



The Nature of God. 73 

ance ; He is kind to the evil 1 and the 
good. 

God does not exercise a governing con- 
trol over birth and death. Not one child 
would need to be born into the world if 
man so willed. God does not premedi- 
tatedly take our loved ones from us, nor 
does He as a result of our prayerful re- 
quests prolong their stay on earth. The 
physical body, like all material things, is 
perishable, and even though disease be 
banished from earth, old age must of neces- 
sity bring death. 

Death means to humanity more life, 
"life in abundance." The body is often 
a weight to the immortal spirit of man, 
but through death he may gain release 
and be enabled to enjoy fuller and freer 
expression, as the butterfly secures its 
wider freedom and larger life when it 
emerges from its chrysalis. Thus we are 
led to feel that God does not answer indi- 
vidual prayers relative to birth or death, 
or the distribution of wealth, or, indeed, 
any material object or desire. 

1 Luke vi. 35. 



74 The Spiritual Life. 

in. 

It is a self-evident fact that much of 
the happiness and good fortune enjoyed 
by the individual, comes to him from his 
fellow-men ; from those who enter into 
his immediate environment, or from those 
with whom he mingles in the more ex- 
tended associations of life. There is in 
the business world a class of people, who, 
instead of working for the general good, 
aid each other in self-seeking, while they 
deprive the masses of their natural rights. 
We have poverty of mind and body in the 
world to-day, because man withholds from 
his brother-man the necessaries of life, — 
food, homes, raiment, and education, — 
and denies work to thousands who ask 
but the opportunity to earn a livelihood. 
God desires that these things shall be 
shared in common by all human beings, 
and that His children shall labor together 
to establish the reign of equality, 2 right- 
eousness, and joy. Man is God's offspring, 
and has inherited Godly power which en- 
ables him to do his Father's will. Divine 

1 2 Cor. viii. 11-14. Acts ii. 44-46. Ibid. iv. 32, 34. 



The Nature of God. 75 

wisdom manifested by man has given to 
the world the idea of universal co-opera- 
tion, an idea that has haunted the noblest; 
minds in past ages, and which in these 
latter days is warming the hearts of thou- 
sands, and leading men to see that this 
"gift of love" is the " day-star," which 
will light humanity's path to the kingdom 
of God. 1 

Our civilization is indebted to Edward 
Bellamy for a luminous exposition of the 
possibilities offered by co-operation in a 
society in which the Golden Rule should 
prevail as the law of life. And however 
much we may differ from this thoughtful 
writer, as to the feasibility of attempting 
to enforce changed conditions through arbi- 
trary law, no one can fail to value his ser- 
vice in giving us a glimpse of what the 
world will be when love and concord rule 
in the hearts of men. His "Equality" is a 
work which should be read by all humani- 

1 We desire to call attention to The Christian Common- 
wealth — a co-operative colony established at Commonwealth, 
Ga., by a small band of earnest men and women. This asso- 
ciation is publishing a valuable little magazine entitled 
The Social Gospel, setting forth the principles of voluntary 
co-operation. 



76 The Spiritual Life. 

tarians and students of social problems. 
We feel that the dominant idea of brother- 
hood as presented by Mr. Bellamy is pro- 
phetic of the day which is dawning when 
man will love his neighbor as he loves 
himself, and will do unto others as he 
would be done by, so that want and pov- 
erty shall be no more — this is man's 
responsibility. He has within him the 
determining power to make of earth an 
Eden, to see that his heavenly Father's 
wishes are realized on earth as they are 
in heaven. 1 Waiting hearts look forward 
to the era when man, through example, 
through the exercise of his God-nature, 
through the expression of love inherited 
from God, will demonstrate to the world 
that our Father in heaven is an impartial 
and a beneficent Father, that god is love. 

l Matt. vi. 9, iOo 



Faith in God. 77 



CHAPTER II. 

FAITH IN GOD. 

It does not afford the spirit of man suf- 
ficient comfort simply to affirm that he 
believes in God; faith is something far 
deeper and more abiding than belief, which 
is constantly tossed betwixt fear and doubt. 
Man, by endeavoring to live the life of 
love, enters to a degree into harmony with 
God, and in his heart is established a liv- 
ing faith ; through which he experiences 
in sickness, in health, in tribulation, in 
time of peace, in life and in death, an ever- 
present feeling of soul-rest and security 
and an all-satisfying sense of the immor- 
tality of the spirit. God does not seem 
afar off, and to turn confidingly to the 
heavenly Father, daily, in loving thought, 
is prayer and happiness. 

u Every inmost aspiration is God's angel undefiled; 
And in every • O my Father ! ' slumbers deep a * Here, 
my child.' M 



78 The Spiritual Life. 

God " made of one every nation of men." 
"We are His offspring." "We are mem- 
bers one of another/' and as one family in 
perfect unity of spirit we must " seek God, 
feel after Him, and find Him." 1 To love 
God and all human beings, and to be loved 
in return by God and humanity, is to know 
love in all its completeness. Only through 
knowing love can we know God, for " God 
is love." Love alone can apprehend love. 
" Now abideth faith, hope, love, these three, 
and the greatest of these is love. Follow 
after love." 

1 Acts xvii. 27, 28. 



God's Perfect Law of Liberty. 79 



CHAPTER III. 

GOD'S PERFECT LAW OF LIBERTY. 

God in the process of expression enjoys 
complete liberty, and man, being His off- 
spring, requires like freedom ; therefore 
God's perfect, all-embracing law is the law 
of liberty. 1 We are taught that our Father, 
when He created His children, suffered 
each one to go his own way. 2 " Where 
the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty." 3 
God does not rule His children. We must 
be good, not because we are compelled to 
be, but voluntarily, of our own free 4 choice, 
must we obey the spiritual laws of our 
being. God does not force His will upon 
any human being ; where force begins, 
liberty ends. Of all boons liberty is to 
man the most precious ; for only under the 
condition of freedom can his mind or spirit 
freely and fully give expression to itself. 

Man has within him truth inherited from 



1 James i. 25. 8 2 Cor. iii. 17. 

2 Acts xiv. 16. 4 Philem, i. 14. 



80 The Spiritual Life. 

God his Father, which renders him nat- 
urally self-reliant; he can "elicit wisdom 
ray by ray from this vast radiance " when 
needful to him, and when he so desires. 
To each individual in his natural state is 
given this "manifestation of the spirit," 
this power to express himself. 

No two people are exactly alike, and it 
is the difference in manner of expression 
which constitutes dissimilarity and individ- 
uality. The legitimate play of the imagina- 
tion, that is, the exercise of the God-given 
creative power which exists in every one, 
affords diversion and diversity, thereby, 
relieving life of monotony. 

Man, when he comes under the restric- 
tion of another's will, is thrown into an 
abnormal state, his mind being suppressed 
and deadened, and he is rendered incapable 
of natural expression. One thus deprived 
of power to manifest his own individual 
nature is like a blind man, compelled to 
depend on others for guidance, — is wholly 
or in part an automaton. 

Altruistic love alone can supply what is 
needed to keep God's children from fall- 
ing into such a state as that just described. 



God's Perfect Law of Liberty. 81 

Only in the environment of brotherly love 
can the individuality of each be preserved. 
This Godlike love will in itself inspire, 
while it will also provide opportunities for 
an education which will enable each indi- 
vidual, in absolute freedom, to give full 
expression to his inborn God-nature, and 
thus cause him to be self-reliant. Love 
is indeed "the fulfillment of the law," the 
truth which will liberate ; for man cannot 
be free unless he is environed by love. 



82 The Spiritual Life. 



CHAPTER IV. 

EVIL. 

God in His state of liberty controls His 
own being : " God cannot be tempted with 
evil, and He Himself tempteth no man." 
Thus sin and its accompaniment, suffer- 
ing, do not proceed from the Father. 
" God is love," " God is spirit," and we 
are told that the " fruit of the Spirit is 
love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, 
goodness, faithfulness, meekness, self-con- 
trol." l The heavenly Father Himself ad- 
heres to His immutable laws of order, 
and He desires that man, His offspring, 
also should obey these laws of harmony 
by living the life of love and peace, and 
thus, forever, banish from the earth that 
misery which is the result of man's tyr- 
anny and lack of spirituality. 

It is true that retribution, manifesting 
itself in trouble, anxiety, and unrest, ever 
results from those sins which dominate 

1 Gal. v. 22, 23. 



Evil. 83 

the " dark and loveless soul," namely, 
selfishness, hypocrisy, self-righteousness, 
deceit, dishonesty, personal criticism, ill- 
temper, sullenness, hatred, cruelty, jeal- 
ousy, falsehood, pride, arrogance, vanity, 
together with many others termed " sins 
of the disposition." 

Physical disease, with its attendant, suf- 
fering, is superinduced to a great degree 
by another form of lawlessness, equally as 
evil in nature and designated as " sins of 
the body ; " but it is also a fact that mil- 
lions of people endure severe and excru- 
ciating physical pain which is not the 
effect of sinfulness, but arises from igno- 
rance concerning the material laws govern- 
ing the physical body. The latter is but 
a perishable organism, and scholars are 
studying it to-day as never before, that 
they may learn how to keep it in the best 
possible condition so that its usefulness 
shall not be impaired. Man, even under 
the most favorable circumstances, is re- 
stricted by the physical nature. The spirit 
is tireless, but it is forced to adapt itself 
to the frail bodily frame in which it is 
housed. Its work is circumscribed by 



84 The Spiritual Life. 

the limitations of the flesh, and very fre- 
quently its intense activity, even in the 
noblest service, so wears upon the body 
that death comes long before the arrival 
of old age. This imprisonment in the 
flesh is so unnatural that we are led to 
believe that, in past aeons, man's spirit 
became enveloped in matter because he 
would not heed the loving admonitions of 
God, just as the child, unwilling to obey 
its parent, plays with fire and is burned. 
Thus we feel that all pain is abnormal and 
not a part of God's divine plan ; indeed, 
we hold it as unjust to the heavenly 
Father to think for an instant that the 
travail of creation is the outcome of God's 
will. Only order, painlessness, and good- 
ness are the products of love. 

Since evil comes not from God, we can 
only infer that man has created the sin 
which abounds in the world. History 
clearly proves that man has long been 
"an inventor of evil things," while it also 
shows that he has given expression to 
much that is good. Man is in this age 
manifesting a certain amount of evil, but 
far less than in any previous period chron- 



Evil. 85 

icled. It seems reasonable to conclude 
that our ancestors, through disobedience 
to the spiritual laws of their being, so 
transformed their natures as to render 
suffering inevitable. 

When man consciously, willfully sins, his 
heart becomes hardened, his conscience 
deadened, and thus his inherited divine 
nature is transformed. But he can cor- 
rupt or change his spirit only to a limited 
degree, for we are told that the goodness 
of God leadeth man to repentance. 1 We 
are also taught that man must work out 
his own salvation ; 2 therefore we infer that 
it is the goodness of man's inborn God- 
nature which works 3 in him and leads him 
ultimately to turn away from evil and do 
good. Each individual, who lives the di- 
vine life of love, becomes an inspiration 
to others and hastens the day of universal 
salvation. Thus has God willed that " all 
men should be saved and come to a knowl- 
edge of the truth." 

We note that from God man has in- 
herited a spirit pure in essence, but he 
has also inherited the sins of his ances- 

1 Rom. ii. 4. 2 Phil. ii. 12. 8 Ibid. ii. 13. 



86 The Spiritual Life. 

tors, which render him imperfect. Out 
of these errors man has woven a network 
of unnatural conditions, and being en- 
tangled therein, he suffers. The struggle 
of the human race, for unnumbered cen- 
turies, has been a more or less intelligent 
attempt to escape from this situation. 

After an ascent through the long ages 
in weariness and anguish, humanity has 
at last climbed out of darkness, and sees 
that the surrounding wilderness or maze 
of evil is less dense than in the past. Man 
has now reached that stage in his journey 
at which he begins to realize that further 
suffering (aside from that produced by 
physical disease) may be avoided if he 
walks steadily by the Golden Rule, in the 
path of affection, wherein each and all 
extend the helping hand of love. 

This Godlike love is the one thing 
needful to enable mankind to achieve an 
exalted destiny, where holiness and hap- 
piness are omnipresent. " Wholeness, 
perfection, love — these have always been 
required of man," 1 and only by banishing 

1 Professor Henry Drummond, " The Ascent of Man," 
P- 34i. 



Evil. 87 

all evil from his nature — by mastery of 
self — ■ can he attain unto his natural state, 
become pure and realize that he is indeed 
the very " breath of God." In the words 
of Phillips Brooks : " To get back to God 
— that is the struggle. The soul is God- 
like and seeks its own. It wants its 
father. There is an orphanage, a home- 
sickness of the heart which has gone up 
into the ear of God." 

To establish the kingdom of God — 
universal holiness and love — on earth, 
will draw mankind into closer rapport 
with God. As love grows, sin will melt 
away as mist before the sun, and human- 
ity, pure in heart, 1 will be prepared to 
enter the Father's Heaven above. 

1 Matt. v. 8. 



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CHAPTER V. 

TRUTH. 

When we realize that the law of inheri- 
tance establishes the Fatherhood of God 
and the brotherhood of man, that is, the 
unity of life, it becomes most sacred and 
beautiful to us. "We are children of 
God," hence "heirs of God," heirs of His 
nature, for He has given us of His own 
spirit. " God is spirit," and we are told 
that the Spirit is the truth, 1 therefore God 
is truth, and man, His offspring, is a par- 
taker of that truth. 

The spirit or essence of truth 2 goeth 
forth from the Father, and the inborn 
truth worketh 3 in man, and is in the world 
increasing and bearing fruit. 4 The heav- 
enly Father is perfect and the thought 
that radiates from God is perfect ; but 
man is imperfect, and though he mani- 
fests a degree of truthful or righteous 
thought, he also expresses that which is 

1 1 John v. 7. 2 John xv. 26. 8 1 Thess. ii. 13. * Col. i. 6-8. 



Truth. 89 

erroneous and evil. The spiritual pro- 
gress of civilization has been wholly de- 
pendent upon the gradual acquisition and 
expression of truth. Humanity's advance 
towards freedom and joy is marked by the 
amount of truth actualized in the lives of 
mankind. Truth, the divine heritage of 
all, will lead humanity home to God. To 
see the heavenly Father "even as He is," 
— this is the 

" divine event 
To which the whole creation moves." 

We feel that when humanity is be- 
gotten anew, — is transformed into the 
likeness of God, — then will all men, 
united in affection as one family, enter 
into the presence of God. 

" None liveth to himself ; " each indi- 
vidual is but one member among many 
interdependent ones which form the body 
of mankind. He who does not express 
the truth in every thought, word, and 
deed, injures not only himself but society 
also. "As a man thinketh in his heart so 
is he " in character. If he does not think 
truthful thought, his spirit is deprived 
of its essential food ; is in a measure 



90 The Spiritual Life. 

starved ; is benumbed, and having little 
or no power to feel, is incapable of natural, 
Godlike affection ; thus man " is dead 
while he liveth." The following little 
poem, entitled "The World," truly de- 
scribes the state of being referred to in 
the foregoing words : — 

" Fashion, the world, society, to me 
These ever are as some brave board outspread, 
Where men and women feign to feast, unfed; 
Smiling and gay, yet holding in each eye 
The piteous glare of hunger's agony. 
Ah ! this alone is death, and these the dead ; 
And yet men call it • life,' pitying, instead, 
The child-like soul that loves simplicity. 

"A padded pomp, chill state, a gaslight glare, 
The bitter-sweet and dust of discontent, 
Soul-hunger and a secret none dare broach — 
These are thy wages, world, thy servants wear 
Upon their brows the stamp of manhood spent — 
Lost innocence, and haunting, vague reproach." 

We are taught that it is essential for 
mankind to be free from worldliness; that 
it is necessary for all to be holy and with- 
out blemish. Not only do we as indi- 
viduals reap the unpleasant effects of our 
own ignorance and sin, but being " mem- 
bers one of another/' the ignorance and 



Truth. 91 

sin which proceed from others, also bring 
suffering upon us, and thus we are in 
bonds with those who are bound, 1 and 
" the whole creation groaneth and travail- 
eth in pain." 

So long as an individual adds to the 
general evil in the world, instead of lessen- 
ing it by expressing spiritual truth or 
righteousness, the era of joy, freedom, and 
peace is delayed. Sin in the aggregate 
constitutes the fabric of evil of which all 
sins are a part, just as pieces of cloth are 
a part of the bolt from which they are 
taken. " Perfection knows no degrees ; " 
the manifestation of any phase of evil pre- 
vents the attainment of universal harmony 
— the kingdom of God. 

1 Heb. xiii. 3. 



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CHAPTER VI. 

THE KINGDOM OF GOD. 
I. 

It is true, as the poet affirms, that the 
sole necessity of earth and heaven is love, 
for "love is the fulfillment of the law." 
When, through education, all nations have 
come to recognize this truth, they will 
engage no more in lawless warfare. 

We are taught that, long ago, God 
"made of one every nation of men/' and 
we believe that in the beginning all hu- 
man beings, united as a harmonious family, 
kept " the unity of the spirit in the bond 
of peace." In that Golden Age, man 
was guiltless, holy, and without blemish. 
Later he made acquaintance with sin, 
hence with grief; iniquity hardened his 
heart and he ceased to love his neighbor 
as himself. 

" Sin is the absence of love," and man 
can become gradually sinless and regain 
his peace and joy only as he increases in 



The Kingdom of God. 93 

power to love humanity. " Inevitable ret- 
ribution grows on the same stem with 
sin," just as reward or compensation is the 
fruit of goodness to be reaped in earth- 
life or in the hereafter. As regards ret- 
ribution or judgment after death, Saint 
Teresa of Spain said long ago : " I con- 
ceive that the misery of damned souls in 
hell consists in the impossibility of their 
loving God or man." Other seers tell us : 
" There can be no hell that hath torment 
equal to that of a soul without love." 
" The degree of love with which any one 
loves, measures his religion. The degree 
of hatred, or indifference, which paralyzes 
love in the soul, is the test of irreligion." 
It is indeed true that he who loses his 
life, — that is, gives of his love, — shall 
save his life or happiness. Man may 
gain the whole world, including fame and 
wealth, but if he saves his life or love, and 
does not give it forth to humanity, he for- 
feits happiness. 1 Long has he labored 
under the delusion that worldly power and 
material things can afford satisfaction; but 
this false idea is slowly fading from his 

1 Luke ix. 24, 25. 



94 The Spiritual Life. 

mind, for these possessions, when once 
acquired, are to him like the toys of which 
a child soon tires. They do not fill the 
soul with that glorious feeling of peace, 
joy, and life which only the presence of 
gentleness, kindness, and love in the spirit 
can give. Man is coming to understand 
that only -through the appreciation and 
exercise of Godlike love can he enjoy end- 
less happiness. He is also beginning to 
realize that, to attain this blest inheritance, 
the garden of his spirit must be cleared 
of unwholesome weeds, which prevent the 
growth of the implanted spiritual force 
within him. It is true that man as yet 
objects to this discipline; he delays cul- 
tivating love, and is thus rendered inca- 
pable of giving forth to humanity that 
which is due to each individual. Spiritual 
love is the food of the spirit, and though 
man withholds from his fellow-men this 
divine manna, God giveth life. His love 
is the bread 1 which cometh down unceas- 
ingly from heaven and giveth life to the 
world. As man becomes more and more 
like God, and gives forth the same unvary- 

l John vi. 33. 



The Kingdom of God. 95 

ing love, then only will the heart or spirit 
of each individual be sufficiently nour- 
ished. Thus this bond of universal love 
will not be complete, answering all the re- 
quirements of mankind, until the two su- 
preme commandments are fulfilled. Herein 
is love made perfect, 1 when man loves his 
neighbor as himself, and in the same 
manner loves God with all the strength of 
his being. We mention man first, because 
we are taught that if a man loves not his 
fellow-man whom he hath seen y he cannot 
love God whom he hath not seen. Man 
lacks capacity for loving God until he 
loves humanity. 

There are those in the world who with- 
hold from their fellow-men the love 2 which 
they should in justice give, and conse- 
quently fail to further freedom. With 
mental and physical force they prey upon 
their brothers, oppressing and enslaving 
them. Those who thus remain unloved 
and oppressed become, as a rule, little 
more than mere automatons. The fol- 
lowing extract from a recent poem 3 by 

1 1. John iv. 7, 8, 12, 16-18, 20. 2 Rom. xiii. 8. 

» " The Man With the Hoe," San Francisco Examiner. 



g6 The Spiritual Life. 

Professor Edwin Markham, like a deep- 
toned bell, bids us listen while it voices 
" What man hath made of man." 

" Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans 

Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, 

The emptiness of ages in his face, 

And on his back the burden of the world. 

Who made him dead to rapture and despair, 

A thing that grieves not and that never hopes, 

Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox? 

Who loosened and let down this brutal jaw? 

Whose was the hand that slanted back this brow? 

Whose breath blew out the light within this brain? 

Is this the thing the Lord God made and gave 

To have dominion over sea and land; 

To trace the stars and search the heavens for power; 

To feel the passion of Eternity? 

Is this the Dream He dreamed who shaped the suns 

And pillared the blue firmament with light? 



What gulfs between him and the seraphim! 
Slave of the wheel of labor, what to him 
Are Plato and the swing of Pleiades? 
What the long reaches of the peaks of song, 
The rift of dawn, the reddening of the rose? 
Through this dread shape the suffering ages look; 
Time's tragedy is in that aching stoop; 
Through this dread shape humanity betrayed, 
Plundered, profaned, and disinherited, 
Cries protest to the Judges of the World." 



The Kingdom of God. 97 

" The selfishness of one part of society 
can cut off the spiritual supplies of another 
part by consigning it to physical, intellect- 
ual, and moral privations, and to an un- 
wholesome environment which makes low 
living practically inevitable. Think of the 
vast deserts of humanity which might bud 
and blossom as the rose, and grow fair 
with culture like the garden of the Lord ! 
As there are plants that grow stunted and 
deformed in the dim light of caverns, 
there are homes and workshops in which 
men and women live or toil amid cheer- 
less shadows. It is cruel to say that 
these childish masses 'might help them- 
selves/ so long as they do not know how, 
and have no adequate means of finding out. 
Dungeon walls are not more impervious 
to light than is the darkened mind. Man- 
acled limbs are not more helpless than is 
the unawakened spirit. And the dead can 
come out of their graves as easily as the 
more depressed classes can rise. ,,1 It is 
as useless to expect wisdom and virtue 
from these benumbed, spiritually sick 2 

1 Rev. Charles G. Ames, " As Natural As Life." 

2 Matt. ix. 10-12. 



98 77?* Spiritual Life. 

ones as it is useless to expect an invalid 
to think and walk when his physical brain 
and limbs are paralyzed. 

That alms-giving is but a palliative 
measure, and utterly inadequate to re- 
store souls and banish poverty, is a 
proven fact. But there have always lived 
on earth men and women who have felt 
so deeply the privations and sorrows of 
others, that they have endeavored, so far 
as they were able, to supply the needs of 
their fellow-men. Count Leo Tolstoi, real- 
izing the necessity for such heartfelt sym- 
pathy, has given the major part of his 
large fortune to those requiring assist- 
ance ; consequently he and his family live 
frugally. They do not dwell in the luxu- 
rious ease which characterizes the lives of 
most of the Russian aristocracy. The 
Countess and children nurse the sick, 
feed the famine-stricken, and make clothes 
for the peasants, while the Count teaches 
his hard-working neighbors, and shares 
their toil, joining them in shoemaking, 
plowing, and other industries. John Rus- 
kin, the great artist and humanitarian, 
gave to those in need nearly all of the 



The Kingdom of God. 99 

wealth inherited from his father ; he 
could find no pleasure in it since he had 
not earned it, and " while outside of his 
fenced acres numbers of men and women 
were starving, and babes dying for lack of 
milk." As regards the brothers and sis- 
ters in our midst who are denied the op- 
portunity of earning a livelihood and 
acquiring spiritual culture, Mr. Ruskin 
exclaims : " Ye sheep without a shepherd, 
ye are deprived not only of bread — it is 
not the pasture alone that has been shut 
from you, but the Presence ! Claim your 
right to be fed, but claim more loudly 
your right to be holy, perfect, and pure. 
Strange words to be used of working 
people : What ! holy ; without any long 
robes or anointing oils ; these rough-jack- 
eted, rough-worded persons ; set to name- 
less and dishonored service ? Perfect ! 
these, with dim eyes and cramped limbs, 
and slowly wakening minds ? Pure ! 
these, with sensual desire and grovelling 
thought ; foul of body, and coarse of soul ? 
It may be so ; nevertheless, they are the 
holiest, perfectest, purest persons the earth 
can at present show. They may be what 



ioo The Spiritual Life. 

you have said; but if so, they yet are 
holier than we, who have left them thus." 1 
In the Golden Age which awaits us 
there will be no more starvation of mind 
or body, there will be no lack of food or 
opportunities for development. 

ii. 

Parents are awakening to the impor- 
tance of teaching their children that all 
service, — whether performed by hand or 
brain, — conducive to the health, com- 
fort, and general well-being of society, is 
ennobling, and contributes to the enjoy, 
ment of the higher nature. The men 
and women of the future, thus properly 
educated, will be rendered self-reliant, pos- 
sessing ability to join in the mental and 
physical labor to be voluntarily shared in 
common by all. In the era of peace and 
happiness to come, the children of God 
will once more be united in love as one 
family, and will divide equally among them- 
selves the work 2 necessary to make this 
earthly home a healthful and beautiful 

1 John Ruskin, " Unto This Last," p. 221. 

2 i Thess. iv. 11. 2 Cor. viii. 11-14. 



The Kingdom of God. 101 

abiding place. Owing to the multitude in 
the world, vast numbers will of necessity 
participate in this service for the common 
good of all, hence the measure of labor 
required from each individual will be very 
small, and no one will be dwarfed in body 
and soul by excessive toil. George Wil- 
liam Curtis observes : " If every man did 
his share of the muscular work of the 
world, no other man would be over- 
whelmed by it. The man who does not 
work imposes the necessity of harder toil 
upon him who does. Thereby the first 
steals from the last the opportunity of 
mental culture. The way back to the 
Golden Age lies through justice, which 
will substitute co-operation for competi- 
tion." ! 

It is good to know that the spirit of 
brotherly love, expressed in the desire for 
co-operation, is permeating society. The 
co-operative method is being practiced by 
groups of people in our own country, and 
in other parts of the world. We are as 
yet only in the dawn of the co-operative 
age ; but events are moving rapidly, and 

l George William Curtis, " Early Letters." 



102 The Spiritual Life. 

when the perfect day shall come, — and 
come it must, — the sunlight of an all-em- 
bracing love shall flood humanity ; this 
is the promise of the twentieth century. 
" Love never faileth," and, manifested 
through co-operation, it will give to all 
homes, raiment, food, and also "leisure, 
which, therefore, means art and culture, 
recreation and education." 

Marcus Aurelius, in speaking of brother- 
hood, says : " All men are related, all 
mankind is one body, and whosoever cuts 
himself loose from a fellow-man parts him- 
self like a severed limb from the stock of 
humanity. Men exist for one another. 
It is not right to be offended with men, 
but it is thy duty to care for them. To 
care for all men is according to nature. 
We are made for co-operation, like feet, 
like hands, like eyelids, like the rows of 
the upper and lower teeth. To act against 
one another is contrary to nature." In 
the words of Professor Henry Drummond : 
" The supreme work to which we need ad- 
dress ourselves in this world is to learn 
to love. The one eternal lesson for us all 
is, how to love better. What makes a man 



The Kingdom of God. 103 

a good artist, a good sculptor, a good mu- 
sician ? Practice. What makes a man a 
good man? Practice." 2 He is deficient 
in goodness who tortures or wantonly slays 
the bird or animal, forgetting how strong 
is the love of life in all creatures, even 
down to the tiniest insect. 

"He prayeth best who loveth best 
All things both great and small; 
For the dear God who loveth us, 
He made and loveth all." 

He is lacking in love who harbors 
thoughts of suspicion, and distrusts his 
fellow-beings. It is divine to be meek and 
loving, and willing to be deceived rather 
than sin against innocent souls ; for where 
doubt is manifested, guiltless ones are fre- 
quently misjudged. That is not love in 
man which prompts him to kill, or hold 
that the criminal who has sinned, one or 
many times, is degraded, and must be 
treated with contempt. Man is God's off- 
spring, and the divinity within him must 
be respected. He should be surrounded 
by those conditions which are necessary to 

1 Professor Henry Drummond, " The Greatest Thing in 
the World." 



104 The Spiritual Life. 

growth and development, that he may reach 
out toward perfection, just as the plant re- 
quires the sunlight, air, and moisture to 
enable it gradually to unfold in all the 
beauty of maturity. Man must cease to 
scorn his fellow-men, for the one thing 
essential to nourish, strengthen, and build 
up the soul of the criminal, is the patient, 
fervent, love of society. Prisons are yet 
necessary for the protection of the people, 
but they should be homes wherein the 
inmates would be uplifted by all holy in- 
fluences. 

Man can progress toward the goal of 
endless felicity only by expressing God- 
like love — love which goes out helpfully 
to all of earth's children. But he who 
ignores the needs of the unenlightened, 
suffering, and oppressed, and lives with 
every thought bent on securing his own 
joy, in his selfish quest crushes others, 
and never attains happiness. 

Love does not seek to dominate, rule, or 
interfere with the rights of others. Love 
manifests itself in kind looks and tender 
words, and quickens into activity all that 
is noble in those who come under its in- 



The Kingdom of God. 105 

fluence. Love will always express itself 
in ministration ; man will fulfill God's 
wishes, and work for man, as long as there 
are sick, unfortunate, and helpless ones to 
be lovingly aided. This of necessity must 
be until the conditions of earth are such 
as to render each individual (who is phys- 
ically healthy) self-reliant, dependent on 
God and humanity only for love. Life as 
it will be in this happy time to come is 
thus voiced in the true Quaker spirit by 
John G. Whittier:— 



" Sound over all waters, reach out from all lands, 
The chorus of voices, the clasping of hands ; 
"With glad jubilations 
Bring hope to the nations ! 

The dark night is ending and dawn has begun ; 
Rise, hope of the ages, arise like the sun, 
All speech flow to music, all hearts beat as one ! 

j< Sing the bridal of nations ! with chorals of love 
Sing out the war-vulture and sing in the dove, 
Till the hearts of the people keep time in accord 
And the voice of the world is the voice of the Lord ! 
Clasp hands of the nations 
In strong gratulations: 

The dark night is ending and dawn has begun ; 
Rise, hope of the ages, arise like the sun, 
All speech flow to music, all hearts beat as one! " 



io6 The Spiritual Life, 



in. 

The delusive opinion of the world to-day 
is that to center the heart's devotion upon 
one particular person, or upon one's own 
family or a few friends, is to reap hap- 
piness. Affection thus limited to one 
individual, or a group of persons, is not 
spiritual — is not like God's love, which 
includes all human beings. The "yearn- 
ing of humanity " is the unconscious long- 
ing for universal love, — for love given 
equally to God and to humanity alone 
draws one into closer harmony with God, 
and thereby enables the individual to love 
perfectly. 1 

The desire for special love finds fulfill- 
ment in marriage, which should ever be a 
most holy and harmonious state, but so 
often does misery ensue that the same 
has given rise to the much discussed ques- 
tion : " Is marriage a failure ? " It is a 
deplorable fact that those who are united 
in wedlock frequently live on the physical 
plane, and the union, being devoid of spirit- 
uality, fails to benefit the participants or 

1 i John iv. 7, 8, 12, 16-18, 20. 



The Kingdom of God. 107 

society. To fulfill its mission, to be sus- 
taining and lasting, the marriage bond 
must be spiritual in nature. Marriage will 
cease to be a failure when the husband and 
wife are imbued with a fervent love for 
God and humanity ; when both, with one 
aim, one purpose, strive to eliminate from 
their natures all that is not divine. It is 
true, as Professor Henry Drummond af- 
firms, that passion is frequently miscalled 
love. 1 He adds : " The idea that the exist- 
ence of sex accounts for the existence of 
love is. untrue. Marriage among early 
races, as we have seen, has nothing to do 
with love. Among savage peoples the 
phenomenon everywhere confronts us of 
wedded life without a grain of love. Love, 
then, is no necessary ingredient of the sex 
relation ; it is not an outgrowth of passion ; 
sex is transient ; love is eternal. Love is 
love, and has always been love, and has 
never been anything lower." 2 Many peo- 
ple, recognizing this truth, live the life of 
continence save when children are desired. 
This true conception of the marriage re- 

1 Henry Drummond, " The Ascent of Man," p. 224. 

2 Ibid. pp. 305, 306. 



io8 The Spiritual Life. 

lation embraces a recognition of the right 
of the child to be well born, and some one 
has wisely said : " A child well born is a 
child half reared." The rights of society, 
which demand that only spiritual children 
be called into being, are likewise consid- 
ered. As regards family life, Professor 
Drummond teaches : " So long as the first 
concern of a country is for its homes, it 
matters little what it seeks second or 
third." " The one point, indeed, where 
all students of the past agree, where all 
prophets of the future meet, where all the 
sciences from biology to ethics are enthu- 
siastically at one, is in their faith in the 
imperishable potentialities of this yet most 
simple institution." "Looking at the 
mere dynamics of the question, the Family 
contains all the machinery, and nearly all 
the power, for the moral education of 
mankind." 1 The home should be an un- 
profaned shrine where the culture of every- 
thing holy and beautiful is carried on. In 
pure, righteous parenthood lies the hope 
of civilization. " Bad parents mean starved 
children. The child which has drunk 

1 " The Ascent of Man," pp. 305, 316. 



The Kingdom of God. 109 

most deeply of its father's or its mother's 
love lives to hand on that which has spared 
it to a succeeding race. " 1 

IV. 

Love is the " supreme dynamic " a — the 
path of altruistic love is the path of pro- 
gress. 3 Professor Drummond observes : 
" We believe with Mr. Kidd that ' the pro- 
cess of social development which has been 
taking place, and which is still in progress, 
in our Western civilization, is not the 
product of the intellect, but the motive 
force behind it has had its seat and origin 
in the fund of altruistic feeling with which 
our civilization has become equipped.' " 4 
Professor Drummond in his own words 
says, "Love is the pure and undefiled 
fountain of all that is eternal in the world." 
He thus further emphasizes this thought : 
" Experience tells us that man's true life 
is lived neither in the material tracts of 
the body, nor in the higher altitudes of 
the intellect, but in the warm world of the 
affections. He reaches his full height 

l " The Ascent of Man," p. 30S. » Ibid, p. 36. 
9 Ibid. p. 216. 4 Ibid. p. 55. 



no The Spiritual Life. 

only, when love becomes to him the breath 
of life, the energy of will, the summit of 
desire. There at last lies all happiness 
and goodness, and truth and divinity." l 

"O Golden Age 
Flood the new heavens and earth, and with thee bring 
All the old virtues, whatsoever things 
Are pure and honest . . . give the heart 
The freedom of its fair inheritance. 



Let common need, the brotherhood of prayer, 

The heirship of an unknown destiny, 

The unsolved mystery round about us, make 

A man more precious than the gold of Ophir, 

Sacred, inviolate, unto whom all things 

Should minister, as outward types and signs 

Of the eternal beauty which fulfills 

The one great purpose of creation^ love — 

The sole necessity of earth and heaven /" a 

1 "The Ascent of Man," p. 215. 2 J. G. Whittier. 



INDEX. 



i. Rom. x., 15. 

2. Eph. ii., 13, 17. 

3. Mat. xxii., 35-40. 

4. Mark xii., 31. 

5. I. John iv., 20. 

6. Jam. i., 25. 

7. Rom. xiii., 10. 

8. Mat. x., 2-4. 

9. Mat. x., 5, 7. 

10. Mat. x., 40. 

11. Luke x., 16. 

12. I. Cor. xiv., 3. 

13. I. Cor. xiv., 31. 

14. II. Tim. ii., 9. 

15. Col. i.,5, 6. 

16. I. Thess. ii., 13. 

17. Jam. i., 21, 22. 

18. Gal. v., 14. 

19. Mark i., 14, 15. 

20. Mat. xiii., 54-56. 

21. John i., 45. 

22. Mat. xxi., 10, 14. 

23. Mat. xix., 16, 17. 

24. John viii., 50. 

25. Luke xxii., 27. 

26. Mat. xx., 28. 

27. Luke vi., 46. 

28. Mat. vii., 21. 

29. John v., 41. 

30. John v., 44. 

31. John xvii., 1, 3. 

32. I. Johniv., 7, 8. 

33. Heb. ii., 12. 

34. John xvii., 20, 21, 23. 



35. John xvii., 13. 

36. Mat. ix., 35. 

37. Luke xvii., 20, 21 

38. Rom. xiv., 17. 

39. I. John ii., 16. 

40. Rom. xii., 2, 9. 

41. John vi., 63. 

42. John viii., 31-34. 

43. John xiii., 34, 35. 

44. John xv., 12. 

45. Johnxvi.,i. 

46. John xvi., 33. 

47. John xv., 11. 

48. John xiv., 15. 

49. John xiv., 21. 

50. Eph. iv., 4, 6. 

51. Jam. ii., 19. 

52. I. Cor. viii., 4. 

53. Mark xii., 28-34. 

54. John xvii., 1, 3. 

55. John iv., 24. 

56. I. John iv., 8. 

57. I. John i.,5. 

58. I. Cor. i., 9. 

59. Mat, v., 45. 

60. Luke vi., 35. 

61. I. Cor. xiv., 33. 

62. Jam. i., 13. 

63. Mat. v., 48. 

64. Acts xiv., 15-17. 

65. Acts xvii., 24-29. 

66. I. Johniv., 8. 

67. John vi., 33. 

68. Rom. viii., 35-39. 



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Index. 



69. Eph. iv., 4, 6. 

70. Heb. iii., 12, 13. 

71. Jam. ii., 20, 26. 

72. Jam. ii, 24. 

73. Jam. ii., 14-17. 

74. Tit. iii., 8, 9, 14. 

75. I.Tim, i., 5. 

76. I. Cor. xiii., 13. 

77. I. Cor. xiv., 1. 

78. Eph. iv.,4,6. 

79. I. John iv., 8. 

80. Acts xvii. , 28. 

81. Rom. viii., 16, 17. 

82. II. Tim. i., 7. 

83. Gal. iii., 26. 

84. Mat. xxiii., 8. 

85. II. Cor. iii., 15, 16. 

86. I. Pet. i., 15, 16. 

87. I. Thcss. ii., 12. 

88. Mat. v., 48. 

89. Heb. vi., 1. 

90. I. John iii., 1-3. 

91. Rom. viii., 19. 

92. Jam. i., 25. 

93. Rom. xiii., 8, zo. 

94. Jam. ii., 8. 

95. Gal. v., 14. 

96. Jam. ii., 12. 

97. Mat. vii., Z2. 

98. Rom. ii., 13-15. 

99. Mat. xxii., 35-40. 

100. Markxii., 31. 

101. I. John iv., 20. 

102. Gal. v., 14. 

103. II. Johni., 5. 

104. I. John v., 3. 

105. Phil, iv., 4-8. 

106. I. Pet. iv., 6. 

107. Rom. viii., 6. 

108. Gal. v., 22, 23. 

109. I. Pet. iii., 8, 9. 
no. I. Pet. i., 22. 



in. 
112. 
"3- 
114. 
"5. 
116. 
117. 
118. 

119. 
120. 

X2I. 
122. 
I23. 
124. 
I25. 
126. 
127. 
128. 
I29. 
I30. 
131. 
132. 
133. 
134. 
135. 
I36. 

137- 
X38. 
139. 
I40. 
141. 
142. 
143. 
144. 
145. 
I46. 
147. 
I48. 

149. 
I50. 
151. 
152. 



Luke vi., 35. 
Rom. xii., 17, 19, 21. 
Mat. v., 48. 
I. Tim. iv., 12. 
Eph. iv., 32. 
Eph. v., 1. 
Col. iii., 12-14. 
I. Cor. xvi., 13, 14. 
I. Cor. xiii., 1-13. 
I. Cor. xiv., 1. 
Mat. v., 5. 
Rom. xii., 16. 
Rom. xii., 3. 
Mat. xx., 25, 26. 
Mat. xxiii., 8. 
Mat. vii., 12. 
Jam. iii., 13. 
Phil, iv., 5. 
I. Pet. iii., 8. 
I. Cor. xiv., 33. 
Eph. v., 1. 
I. Cor. xvi., 14. 
I. Cor. xiv., 40. 
Rom. xiv., 19. 
Mat. xix., 19. 
Col. iii., 21. 
I. Tim. iv., 12. 
I. Thess. v., 13. 
Heb. xii., 14. 
Mat. xxvi., 52. 
Col. iii., 15. 
I. Pet iii., 9. 
Rom. xiv., 17. 
Luke ii., 14. 
Acts xvii., 24, 26. 
Eph. iv., 25. 
I. Pet. i., 22. 
I. Pet. iii., 8. 
Rom. xii., 15. 
Phil, ii., 2, 3, 5. 
Phil, ii., 14, 15. 
Gal. iii. , 26. 



Index. 



ii 



153. Mat. xxiii., 8. 

154. Eph. ii., 19. 

155. Markiii.,25. 

156. I. Cor. xi., 17, 18 

157. I. Cor. i., 12. 

158. I. Cor. iii., 3. 

159. I. Cor. i., 10. 

160. Col. iii., 14. 

161. Eph. iv., 1-3. 

162. John iv., 21, 23, 24. 

163. I. John v., 3. 

164. II. John i., 5. 

165. I. John iv., 20. 

166. Gal. v., 14. 

167. John xvii., 1, 3. 

168. I. John iv., 7, 8. 

169. Heb. ii., 12. 

170. John xvii., 20, 21, 23. 

171. Rom. viii., 16. 

172. Acts xvii., 28. 

173. Acts x., 28. 

174. Rom. xiii., 8-10. 

175. Mat. xxiii., 8. 

176. I. Pet. i., 22. 

177. I. Cor. viii., 1. 

178. Gal. v., 13. 

179. Acts xx., 34. 

180. Tit. iii., 8, 9, 14. 

181. I. Thess. iv., n. 

182. II. Cor. viii., 11-14. 

183. II. Cor. viii., 24. 

184. Mat. xix., 16-22. 

185. Heb. xiii., 5. 

186. I. Tim. vi., 18. 

187. Mat. vii., 12. 

188. Gal. v., 14. 

189. Gal. v., 13. 

190. I. Thess. iv., n, 12. 

191. Acts ii., 44-46. 

192. I. John iv., 8. 

193. II. Pet. i., 3. 

194. Jam. i., 17. 



195. Mat. vi., 31-33. 

196. Actsiv., 32, 34. 

197. Luke ix., 23. 

198. Mat. xi.,29, 30. 

199. John xv., 11. 

200. Mat. ix., 36, 37. 

201. John iv., 35. 

202. Gal. v., 13-15. 

203. I. Tim. vi., 18. 

204. Rom. xii., 10-15. 

205. I. Cor. x., 24. 

206. Gal. vi., 2. 

207. Mat. xxv., 35-40. 

208. John xiv., 21. 

209. Rom. xv., 1. 

210. Luke x., 30-35. 

211. Jam. ii., 15, 16. 

212. Luke xiv., 12, 13 

213. I. Pet. i., 22. 

214. I. Cor. xiii., 3. 

215. I. Cor. xvi., 14. 

216. I. John iv., 8. 

217. II. Pet. i., 3. 

218. Jam. iv., 2, 3. 

219. Jam. i., 17. 

220. Mat. vii., 9-12. 

221. Mat. vi., 8. 

222. Mat. vi., 33. 

223. Acts iv., 32, 34. 

224. Mat. vi., 6. 

225. Mat. v., 23, 24. 

226. Markxi., 25. 

227. I. John iv., 20. 

228. Mark xii., 30. 

229. Phil, ii., 5. 

230. Luke vi., 12. 

231. Luke xxi., 37, 38. 

232. Mat. xiv., 23. 
2 33- John viii., 31, 32. 

234. John xv., 12. 

235. I. Thess. v., 19. 

236. John vi., 63. 



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Index. 



237. I. John v., 7. 

238. John viii., 32. 

239. Gal. v., 14. 

240. I. Thess. ii., 13. 

241. Col. i., 5, 6. 

242. II. Tim. ii., 9. 

243. Mat. vii., 7. 

244. I. Cor. ii., 15. 

245. I. Thess. v., 21, 22. 

246. Phil, ii., 15. 

247. John viii., 34. 

248. II. Pet. ii., 19. 

249. John viii., 31, 32. 

250. John xv., 12. 

251. I. Cor. viii., 1. 

252. Jam. i., 25. 

253. Gal. v., 14. 

254. Jam. i., 21, 22. 

255. Jam. i., 23, 24. 

256. Mat. vii. 12. 

257. Rom. xiii., 8-10. 

258. Rom. xiv., 17. 

259. Mat. vi., 9, 10. 

260. I. John iii., 4. 

261. I. John v., 17. 

262. Jam. iv., 17. 

263. Jam. i.,27. 

264. I. John, ii., 16. 

265. Rom. xii., 2, 9. 

266. I. Cor. x., 6, 7, 14. 

267. Rom. xiv., 17. 

268. Mark iv., 18, 19. 

269. Luke xxi., 34. 

270. Eph. v., 15-18. 

271. Rom. xiv., 21. 

272. Rom. xiv., 13. 

273. Mat. xviii., 7. 

274. Rom. viii., 5-7. 

275. Gal. v., 19-21. 

276. I. Cor. iii., 3. 

277. Jam. iii., 14-17. 

278. Gal. v., 15. 



279. Rom. xiii., 8-10. 

280. Heb. iii., 12, 13. 

281. Mark vii., 21-23. 

282. II. Tim. iii., 1-4. 

283. Tit. i., 16. 

284. Jude i., 16. 

285. Mat. xxiv., 12. 

286. Mat. xxiii., 3. 

287. I. Cor. xv., 58. 

288. II. Tim. iii., 14. 

289. II. Tim. i., 13. 

290. Rom. xiii., 8. 

291. Mat. xxiii., 8. 

292. Jam. ii., 1-9. 

293. Mark vii., 6-8. 

294. Mat. xxiii., 28. 

295. Mat. xxiii., 13. 

296. I. Pet. ii., 1, 2. 

297. Heb. xiii., 5. 

298. I. Tim. vi., 9-11. 

299. Mark x., 25. 

300. Mat. vi., 24. 

301. Mat. vi., 19-21. 

302. Jam. iv., 13, 14. 

303. Rev. iii., 17. 

304. Luke xii., 15. 

305. I. John ii., 16. 

306. Rom. xii., 2. 

307. Jude i., 17-19. 

308. Rom. viii., 5-7. 

309. John vi., 63. 

310. Rom. viii., 6. 

311. Gal. v., 16, 17. 

312. I. Pet. ii., 11. 

313. Mat. v., 27, 28. 

314. Rom. xiii., 9. 

315. Heb. xiii., 4. 

316. Rom. xiii., 14. 

317. Rom. vi., 12. 

318. Col. iii., 5. 

319. Gal. v., 24. 

320. Jam. i., 26. 



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321. Jam. iii., 3-10. 

322. Col. iii., 8. 

323. Mat. xv., 18. 

324. Mat. xii., 34-36. 

325. Jam. v., 12. 

326. Eph. iv., 25. 

327. Eph. iv., 29. 

328. Phil, ii., 14. 

329. Jam. iv., 11. 

330. Mat. vii., 1. 

331. Jam. v., 9. 

332. Marki., 14, 15. 

333. Mark vi., 7, 12. 

334. Luke xv., 10. 

335. Acts xxvi., 19, 20. 

336. II. Tim. ii., 19. 

337. John iii., 7. 

338. Mat. xviii., 2, 3. 

339. Mat. v., 8. 

340. Rom. vi., 4, 11. 

341. Rom. xii., 2, 9. 

342. Mat. v., 6. 

343. Eph. iv., 22-32. 

344. Eph. v., 1. 

345. Col. iii., 5, 8-14. 

346. Eph. v., 14. 

347. I. John iii., 14. 

348. I. Pet. i., 22, 23. 

349. Gal. v., 14. 



350. I. Pet. i., 25. 

351. I. Pet. ii., 1, 2. 

352. Mat. v., 48. 

353. Jam. i., 27. 

354. II. Tim. i., 7. 

355. I. John v., 4. 

356. Rev. ii., 7. 

357. Rev. xxi., 6. 

358. Rev. xxii., 17. 

359. Mat. vii., 12. 

360. Col. iii., 15. 

361. Phil, ii., 12. 

362. Rom. xii., 21. 

363. Luke xxi., 19. 

364. Jam. i., 4. 

365. Heb. vi., 1. 

366. I. John iii., 1-3. 

367. Rom. viii., 19. 

368. II. Cor. iv., 16-18. 

369. II. Cor. v., 1. 

370. I. Cor. xv., 44, 47. 

371. John xiv., 1-3. 

372. Luke xxiii., 46. 

373. I. Pet. iii., 18-20. 

374. I. Cor. xv., 56. 

375. I. Tim. iv., 7, 8. 

376. Eph. v., 1. 

377. I Tim. ii., 3, 4. 

378. Rev. xxi., 3, 4. 



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